Pastor Mensa Otabil, Founder and General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), has renewed his support for the controversial National Cathedral project, insisting that he remains eager to see the facility completed despite his earlier withdrawal from its Board of Trustees.
Speaking at ICGC Christ Temple East in Teshie, Accra, during the church’s 2026 Greater Works programme, Pastor Otabil argued that Christians should have rallied behind the project rather than allow political divisions to shape their position on it.
“We need to build massively to the glory of God,” he declared.
Pastor Otabil, who withdrew from the National Cathedral Board of Trustees in 2019, maintained that his departure from the board did not diminish his desire to see the project completed.
He argued that Christians, who constitute the majority of Ghana’s population, should have looked beyond partisan politics and supported the construction of a major national Christian edifice.
“We are so small-minded, so small-minded that we allow politics to blind us. We allow politics to just crush our thinking,” he said.
The respected clergyman expressed concern that political disagreements surrounding the National Cathedral had overshadowed what he considers the broader significance of the project to Ghana’s Christian community.
He contrasted the Christian response to the Cathedral with the development of major religious facilities by other faith communities in the country.
“Others are building things all over,” he said.
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His comments come amid continued public debate over the future of the National Cathedral, a project that has generated intense political and public scrutiny over its financing, expenditure and stalled construction.
Ghana already has a National Mosque at Kanda in Accra, which was commissioned in 2021 following financial support from Turkish partners. Another major Islamic complex is also being developed at East Legon, reportedly with Saudi support.
