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The 36-year-old man who was arrested last Sunday at President John Mahama’s church, Ringway Gospel Centre Assemblies of God, wielding a pistol, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.

Charles Antwi, was found during the main service with the locally manufactured pistol which was fully loaded.

On Tuesday, an Accra Circuit Court charged him with unlawful possession of firearm.

In court, he revealed that a military personnel directed him to the President’s church at Ringway. According to him, he had gone to the church to kill the president but the president was not in church on that day.

He added that on a single occasion that the President showed up in church he (Antwi) did not have a gun.

In his confession, the convict said he was fed up with the “dumsor” situation and had gone to Libya prior to attempting the assassination on the President.

He said he felt cheated by the President Mahama following the death of Prof Atta Mills since he believed he (Antwi) was supposed to be the next president of Ghana.

He told the court that the day he was picked up was the fourth time he had gone to the church to launch his attack but on the three occasions, the president was not present.