Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Former president, John Dramani Mahama
Correspondence from Mumuni Yunus, Northern Region
NDC Flagbearer, John Mahama has responded to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s 50 questions posed to him with a popular American quote that ridicules the relevance of the 50 questions posed by the NPP Flagbearer.
According to Mahama, the 2024 elections are about the state of the Ghanaian economy and not some “useless things” as contained in Dr Bawumia’s questions.
Speaking at a rally in the Savelugu constituency of the Northern region on Wednesday as part of his regional campaign tour, former President Mahama challenged the Vice President to simply answer his five questions and stop avoiding them.
“In 1992, there was an election in America, it was between Bill Clinton and George Bush Senior, at that time, the American economy was in recession, like the way the Ghanaian economy is in crisis today and people were talking about immigration, talking about all kinds of useless things.
“Do you know what the Clinton people said? ‘It is about the economy, stupid.’ Today, I’m repeating those words, this election is about the economy, stupid. It is not about all those other useless things about who built how many compost plants. Answer the five simple questions,” he challenged the NPP Flagbearer.
Mahama said Dr Bawumia’s questions looked like “he has just learnt those things in the 50 questions the way we used to learn ‘blah blah black sheep’, ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall’”.
This, he said, was because he asked the Vice President specific questions on the economy and yet he responded with some irrelevant questions.
“I asked you five simple questions on the economy, that’s all. You go and respond with how many compost plants did you build, how many this did you build, that is not what the issue is in Ghana today” he noted.
Mahama said the Vice President did not need a debate to answer those five questions.
“And you can’t hide behind the debate, you don’t need a debate to answer the five questions. When you asked Amissah Arthur 170 questions, you did not agree to go and debate for him to answer them” he added.
Former President Mahama while speaking at Tatale in the Northern region asked the Vice President five questions on the state of the Ghanaian economy.
It included questions on the depreciation of the cedi against the dollar, Ghana’s debt stock, high inflation, the Central Bank’s debts and Dr Bawumia’s previous lectures on the economy.
In response, Dr Bawumia posed some 50 questions on a variety of issues that happened under the former President’s regime.
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