Member of Parliament for Mpraeso Constituency, Seth Kwame Acheampong has admonished former president John Dramani Mahama to better stay off talking about the economy.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP says he is advising the former president as a senior brother.
This advice comes in the wake of the former president’s mockery of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in a tweet over the week.
In the tweet, Ghana’s fourth president in the Fourth Republic posted a video of Dr Bawumia lashing out at the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government over the depreciation of the domestic currency, Cedi, to the US Dollar.
But Mr Acheampong appeared frustrated by Mr Mahama’s gesture, saying the economy was brought to its knees in the last quarter of 2012, when he was president.
Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Saturday, the Mpraeso MP said Ghana overspent its budget by more than GH¢8 billion in the lead-up to the elections that year.
According to him, Ghana has since not recovered and the current government has had to continue servicing some of the debt and loans incurred during that period.
‘Bawumia was Bible & Quran’
But Mr Mahama’s Campaign Coordinator in the 2016 elections, Kofi Adams, who was also a panelist on the programme, disagreed with the MP.
He said Dr Bawumia was considered a Bible and a Quran by the NPP family and became an authority on any issue on the economy.
Mr Adams, who is NDC’s National Organiser, said what Mr Mahama sought to do on Twitter was a harmless posting of the old video, leaving Ghanaians to judge.
He recalled how the Minister of Finance had gone to Parliament earlier this year to tout the resilience of the economy under the Akufo-Addo government.
With the Cedi depreciating, Mr Adams insinuated, Ghanaians have to look at the government with the same lens as Dr Bawumia did: a matter of weak fundamentals.
Source: 3news
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NDC YAAMUTU, NDC YAAMUTU, NDC YAAMUTU, NDC YAAMUTU, NDC YAAMUTU, NDC YAAMUTU, NDC YAAMUTU, because they don't read. How can they compare 8 years to one and the half years? ndc one and the half years was a disaster.
AHADZIE do you relly assept your usle s s father as yours tell your akufo addo and bawumia with their formation $ 5 3 2 1 1 kwasi nyantakyi to make sure the right thing is done . you wish mr mahama is your father but you can get , nana addo has faillllll
So this Mahama guy was once a president of our dear nation? Ahhhh hmmm. You destroyed the economy in 8 years and you expect somebody to use just one and half years to fix it?
BAWUMIA IS A CROOOOK ... HE'S NEVER CONSISTENT, ALL HIS PROMISES ARE TURNING OUT TO BE LIES... THE COUNTRY IS ON IT'S KNEES, MARKET WOMEN ARE CRYING, SHOPS ARE CLOSING DOWN, THE FINANCIAL SECTOR IS CRIPPLED WITH BANKS FOLDING UP. NO WONDER THESE GUYS ARE NYANTAKYI'S BOSOM FRIENDS... WE WILL SHOW THEM THAT LYING YOUR WAY INTO GOVERNMENT WILL ONLY EXPOSE YOUR WEAK MIND AND MISPLACED PRIORITIES
JOHN MAHAMA TOOK THE CEDI FROM ONE CEDI TWENTY PESEWAS FROM PRESIDENT KUFFOUR. IN EIGHT YEARS HE LANDED ON FOUR CEDIS TWENTY PESEWAS IN 2016, SO KOFI ADAMA WHAT ARE YOU TELLING GHANAIANS.WE KNOW HOW JOHN MAHAMA WESSED UP THE ECONOMY OF GHANA THANK GOD NANA ADDO AND DR BAWUMIA CAME TO OUR RESCUE.MAHAMAS LOST IN THE 2016 ELECTIONS SHOULD TELL YOU THAT HE WAS A BIG FAILOUR. I LEARNT YOU ARE BRINGING HIM BACK AGAIN HIS DEFEAT IN 2020 WILL BE DESASTROUS. HE WILL NOT EVEN REACH 40 PERCENT YOU MARK IT.