[ 2016-10-26 ]

NDC Chases Bawumia Combs Overseas Schools For ‘Apor’
Information gathered by DAILY GUIDE indicates that
the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is
set to launch a major onslaught on vice
presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party
(NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, in the coming days in
a bid to discredit and dent his image and
reputation.

The move to go after the NPP’s number two man
– with a few weeks to the crucial December
elections – according to inside sources, comes
on the advice of a South African consulting firm,
Brand International, which is said to be the major
Public Relations (PR) outfit and strategist
working behind the scenes for the NDC’s 2016
campaign.

The same firm was allegedly instrumental in the
party’s 2012 electoral campaign.

Interestingly, when the NPP went for South African
security experts, the NDC cried foul, claiming
that the party had invited mercenaries.

According to reports, South Africans are of the
opinion that the NDC should kiss good bye to the
2016 polls if it fails to run down Dr Bawumia’s
prognosis of the economy.

The same consultants to the NDC allegedly asked
the president to request for a debate with Nana
Akufo-Addo, presidential aspirant of the NPP – a
call that has virtually hit a snag.



Ploy

According to insiders, who claim they took part in
several meetings to plan the onslaught on Dr
Bawumia, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of
Ghana (BoG), the advice and decision to go all out
on Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate comes after
polls have revealed that his credibility and
appeal among the Ghanaian populace are the major
obstacles to the re-election of the President in
the upcoming elections.

Accordingly, a series of moves have already been
initiated to ensure a successful execution of the
plot this time round, despite several failed
attempts in the past to dent the image of Dr.
Bawumia.

These moves, sources said, include digging into
every little detail about the celebrated
economist/banker in an attempt to find things
[gather dirt] that can be used in the planned
attack.

To this end, various operatives are said to have
been dispatched to almost all schools attended by
Dr Bawumia, as well as his former workplaces,
including those in the United Kingdom (UK), Canada
and the United States (US), while intimate and
friends (past and present) are being offered huge
sums of money in return for even the slightest of
information that can be deemed valuable by the NDC
to nail him (Bawumia).



Schemes

According to highly-placed sources, the recent
vitriolic attacks on Bawumia – spearheaded by
President John Mahama, Koku Anyidoho, Asiedu
Nketia and Haruna Iddrisu – have all been part
of the preparatory stages for the main attack,
which is due in the coming days.

Several officials in the NDC and the John Mahama
campaign team are said to have approved the final
onslaught on the NPP vice presidential aspirant
who has been campaigning in the Northern Region
for the past few weeks.

Dr Bawumia recently rubbished President Mahama’s
recent gaffe on the cost of the redenomination
exercise undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG)
under the erstwhile Kufuor-led NPP administration
in 2007.

President Mahama challenged Dr Bawumia, who was
then a Deputy Governor of the BoG, to reveal the
cost of the cedi redenomination exercise.

“Up till today, no Ghanaian knows the cost of
the redenomination exercise and the same people
come and say someone is incompetent. When you
redenominated the cedi how much did it cost us?
Simple things like these you cannot tell us and
you have the nerve to come and talk about
corruption. Look in the mirror and look at
yourselves,” was how Mahama put it.

But in a sharp rebuttal, Dr Bawumia ridiculed
President Mahama by referring him to a Daily
Graphic report on Wednesday, November 7, 2007,
which quoted a former Governor of the Bank of
Ghana, Dr. Paul Acquah, as saying at a press
conference that the Central Bank spent a total of
$66.2 million (about GH¢62.188 million) on the
redenomination exercise.
For him, the request for disclosure on the 2007
redenomination was therefore, another
demonstration of incompetence on the part of the
president.

That, he said, was because “if the president
really wanted to find out the cost of the
redenomination, he could simply have asked his
veep [Vice President Amissah-Arthur] who was a
Bank of Ghana Governor, especially when the
president was the head of the Economic Management
Team.”
“Such petty propaganda should be beneath someone
of the stature of a president, it does not only
tell of a president who does not read, but the
fact that he delights in propaganda and ends up
embarrassing himself,” Dr Bawumia added.

Source - Daily Guide

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