Ghana’s former president and leading opposition presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday expressed his opposition to LGBTQ+ rights but did not say if he would support a bill aimed at criminalising same-sex relations. The main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), voted last year to retain Mahama as its leader for the 2024 presidential election. During a meeting with members of the clergy in Eastern Ghana, the former president said gay marriage and being transgender were against his Christian beliefs. “The faith I have will not allow me to accept a man marrying a man, and a woman marrying a woman,” Mahama said while responding to a church leader’s call against LGBTQ+ people.