Founder and Leader of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom on Tuesday descended heavily on President John Dramani Mahama for snubbing the presidential debate organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).
The first series dubbed Presidential Town Hall was held at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra, Themed ‘Reinforcing the Pillars of Ghana’s Democracy’, the debate saw only Dr Nduom, Dr Edward Nasigre Mahama of the People’s National Convention (PNC) and Independent Presidential Candidate Jacob Osei Yeboah participating.
Before the debate was even planned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had stated categorically that its candidate will not make an appearance.
Opposition candidates Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings of the National Democratic Party (NDP) – all 2016 presidential candidates – were also conspicuously missing.
‘Lazy man’s approach’ But for Dr Nduom, Mahama’s absence is more worrying and an affront to Ghanaians as his party has supervised a collapsing economy for the past eight years.
“I must state my disappointment that the man who has supervised the economy in the last eight years [is not here].” He chastised the president on some of his policies, describing the approach to taxation, for instance, as a “lazy man’s approach”.
He said the massive borrowing for “needless” infrastructure should be a concern to all Ghanaians, calling for a change of the current government.
Source: 3news.com
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pedestrian policies often lacking in substance was delivered yesterday at the so called debate. Their so called policies was just empty talk. Mr. Nduom you had a field day and yet made no concrete policy, just pedestrian talk, you were very incompetent yesterday, as for Dr. Edward, he just his campaign message in 1996 and 2000, they were useful then, but cannot work now, society has moved on.
Does that caricature you see in that st0.pid hat look like a president to you? Loser!
the real failure of mahama is the economy,energy,corruption and bad governance. the IEA platform would have made his failure too clear. No ***barred word*** in the type of mahama will stick out his head for a failure knock
hahahahhaa, maseree saaaaaa. Ndoum needed support to use the presidents responds to answer his own question hahahahahaha simpa panyin hahhaha
the absence of the president really showed us you guys competing with him are all fabricators . questions was thrown at you people and your answers were koooo tweaaa. Nana Addo was lucky he didnt take part like his own will be worse chai.
HAHA NDOUM THAT NYAMANYAMA THING YOU PEOPLE DID YESTERDAY? AAH YOU EXPECT OUR PRESIDENT TO BE THERE, WHAT FOR? HE GET TIME TO CATCH WATI
Everybody cool your temper down and Nobody should blame anybody here because we claim that we are practicing democracy but it is only a few people of Ghanaian who know and practice it well and the big number of Ghanaian look up to the so-called politician.
But how can President Mahama come for this IEA encounter to justify the ailing/bad economic indicators Mother Ghana is experiencing. It is good for him to stay away from such meetings. A big failure