[ 2016-10-23 ]

Mahama is worst performing President – Bawumia
The Running Mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says President John Dramani
Mahama is the worst performing president in terms
of economic management within the last 16 years.

“The President says he likes evidence, the
evidence however shows that since 2000 his tenure
as President from 2012 to 2016, he has been the
worst performing President in terms of Ghana’s
economy. That is the evidence, as I showed in my
recent lecture,” Dr. Bawumia stated during his
campaign tour of the Northern Region.

According to him, the incompetence of the Mahama
administration has led to what he described as
poor performance of the economy and the suffering
of the people.

The NPP’s vice presidential candidate and his
boss Nana Akufo-Addo have consistently criticised
President Mahama for apparently mismanaging the
Ghanaian economy.

The criticism has led to President Mahama’s
latest call for a one-on-one debate between him
and Nana Akufo-Addo on the economy.

But speaking in Sangban in the Tatale-Sanguli
Constituency in the Northern Region on Friday,
Dr.Bawumia asked President Mahama to respond to
the 170 facts he presented in his last lecture on
the State of the Ghanaian economy before any
debate could be organised.

He said government has still not responded to
questions he raised despite promises of its
officials to do so on various occasions.

Dr. Bawumia entreated President Mahama to try
debating ordinary Ghanaians, who over the past
eight years, have become victims of his
incompetent governance.

“Today John Mahama says he wants a debate on the
economy. Now I want to challenge him to come to
Sangban and debate with the people of Sangban on
the economy; he should tell the people of Sangban,
what he has done for them in the last 8 years –
4 years as Vice-President and 4 years as
President.

“He should tell the people of Northern Ghana
what he did with the SADA money; he should go and
debate with businesses that have collapsed because
of Dumsor; he should debate with farmers who
cannot buy fertilizers because of his policies. He
should go and debate with businessmen who cannot
access loans because of high interest rates”,
Dr. Bawumia stated.

Dr. Bawumia challenged President Mahama to rather
ask for debates with Teacher and Nursing Trainees,
the millions of unemployed youth and cocoa
farmers, who are desirous of voting him out of
power.

“He should debate with teacher trainees who are
not paid allowances because his government has
refused to pay their allowances. He should go and
debate nursing trainees. He should debate the
unemployed; our youth who cannot find jobs because
the economy under him is collapsing.

“He should go and debate cocoa farmers whose
farms are collapsing because of the collapse of
the mass cocoa spraying programme. He should
certainly debate with people who cannot afford to
pay electricity bills or water bills,” Dr.
Bawumia added.

Source - Citifmonline

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