Reverend Gabriel Ansah, a popular and reputable preacher on Adom FM, has advised Christians as well as gospel musicians not to make their political affiliations public or mount political platforms to campaign for politicians.
Speaking at a peace conference on the theme “Standing in the Gap for the Nation”, organized by the United Gospel Musicians Association (UGMA) at the Accra Newtown branch of the Church of Pentecost, Thomas Wyatt Temple, Rev. Ansah advised gospel musicians to desist from taking five hundred Ghana cedis to sing on political platforms for politicians, observing that such activities had the tendency to tarnish the image of those gospel musicians.
He was of the view that by singing on political platforms the musicians have revealed their political affiliation, which according to him was not the best.
Recently, Mrs. Diana Hopeson, President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), also kicked against musicians getting involved in active partisan politics, saying it was not prudent.
The MUSIGA president noted that much as music and politics go hand-in-hand, it was not in the interest of the country’s young democracy for musicians to make their political affiliations public, even though nothing stopped them from voting for a party of their choice.
She noted: “As musicians, it’s easier for us to make peace since we speak the language of the soul as peace makers; if we publicly take sides, how can we really be taken as peace makers?”
Mrs. Hopeson consequently urged both independent musicians and members of MUSIGA to stay out of partisan politics and help build Mother Ghana.
