The running mate to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, wasted little time in responding to President John Mahama’s challenge to reveal the cost of the 2007 redenomination of the cedi by urging the President to read and get his facts right.
Describing President Mahama’s challenge as fueled by propaganda and a “demonstration of incompetence” via Facebook, Dr. Bawumia said the President could have simply have asked his running mate, who was Bank of Ghana Governor between 2009 and 2012.
His Facebook post also came with a link to a Daily Graphic report from 2007 that indicated that the redenomination exercise cost GHc 66.2 million.
Yesterday [Tuesday], President Mahama challenged Dr. Bawumia to reveal the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise in 2007.
Speaking at a rally in the Ablekuma North constituency, President Mahama held that since Dr. Bawumia was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana at the time of the cedi redenomination in 2007, he should be able to tell Ghanaians how much it cost government to undertake the exercise.
The President Mahama proceeded to accuse the NPP running mate of incompetence and corruption but in his Facebook post, Dr. Bawumia also retorted that such comments embarrass the Presidency.
“Such petty propaganda should be beneath someone of the stature of a President. It is clear he is very poorly briefed, but when a President decides to join the bandwagon of propaganda , he only ends up embarrassing himself,” Dr. Bawumia said.
Find below the full Facebook post.
Mr. President, care to read?
Today’s request for disclosure on the 2007 redenomination is another demonstration of incompetence. Apart from the fact that the then Governor disclosed the cost as far back as 2007, if the President really wanted to find out the cost of the redenomination, he could simply have asked his VEEP who was Bank of Ghana Governor, especially when the President was Head of the Economic Management Team between 2009 and 2012.
Such petty propaganda should be beneath someone of the stature of a President. It is clear he is very poorly briefed, but when a President decides to join the bandwagon of propaganda , he only ends up embarrassing himself.
Moving on, can the President (with the same zeal) and his Economic Management Team respond to the 170 statements contained in my last lecture?
Source: Citifmonline
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Bawumia is a germ,mahama is a fake
Hahahaha egyeeiiiii,what an embarrassment,Mr.Mahama!!!You've reduced the presidency into laughing stock.No wonder things are basaaaa.We'll surely vote you out and bring NPP.
The President is in trouble.
I don't really understand. Was proper handing over not made to the ndc government? Where was the head of economic management team(President Mahama)? This incompetence and childish propaganda must stop. The prez. should know that he Is no more in opposition but the president of Ghana. Incompetence everywhere #message is here#
Mahama cannot ask Dr. Bawumia that question because he Mahama has never been a governor of the Bank of Ghana, he should make way for his vice to ask that question. Look who is asking questions. And who is talking about arrogance? It is confidence in a good evidence based analysis that proves to be True. Sorry if you don't understand Frank and Jonathan.
Our President is just desperate. In desperation, even a straw looks like a log. I dont blame him. I blame the babies with sharp teeth around him.
@fri ho he doent need incompetent people to take him serious so if u dont take him serious is not a big deal, frank incompetence is the best word to descride the NDC and people like u so u can also look for ur own word if u cant stand or understand the incompetent....Obi suro ooo
I dont think u ever entered inside a classroom before, If ur mother dey why should u ask ur sibling about Nkrmah and yaa asantewaa history. wasnt amisah arthur the governor by then, so why should he ask bawumia when he is always with amissah, he is not runing from the question but showing an incompetent leader how to be competent. You jonathan all that u need is common sense cos of the illeteracy in u and propaganda u support anything either good or bad so far as is from the NDC side which shows u are immatured and bling and cant think for yourself. wise up
No day passes without Bawumia using the word incompetence.Is that the only lexicon he knows.Intelligence is soo expensive.
BAWUMIA YOU ARE NOT A POLITICIAN SO WHEN YOU TALK I DONT TAKE YOU SERIOUS( S3 KE LOR) WE NEED MEN WITH BALLS TO TALK NOT YOU