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Mahama 'goofed' on cost of cedi redenomination - Kwaku Baako

President John Mahama has challenged Dr Mahamadu Bawumia to provide the cost of the 2007 cedi redenomination at a campaign rally in the Ablekuma North Constituency.

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President Mahama, the National Democratic Congress presidential nominee, on Tuesday October 11 challenged Dr Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party vice presidential nominee, to provide the cost of the cedi redenomination at a campaign rally in the Ablekuma North Constituency.

According to the president,

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” president Mahama said.

But speaking on Joy FM's Newsfile Saturday, Kwaku Baako said the "President goofed and goofed big time" when he threw the challenge to the former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana.

The veteran journalists added: "it was just politics...propaganda on a political platform which all of them do anyway...but in this case it is the President so you take him on, you deal with it but because he is our president, we are showing some little moderation and respect in dealing with this matter.

Dr Bawumia in response to the president's challenge said it  is another “demonstration of incompetence” by the president.

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He further slammed the president for engaging in “petty propaganda” beneath someone of the “stature of a President.”

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