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Bawumia throws a challenge to Mahama to debate ordinary Ghanaians on the economy
Speaking Friday at a rally in Sangban in the Tatale-Sanguli Constituency of the Northern, Dr Ahaji Bawumia described the president as the worst performing in the annals of the country's economy.
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His challenge comes days after president Mahama threw a similar challenge to his flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, for a one-on-one debate.
Earlier, he had jabbed the president to respond to his 170 questions on the economy before calling a debate with Nana Akufo-Addo.
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He said:"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.”
Bawumia, unrestrained on his bashing of the president, further challenged the President to rather ask for debates with Teacher and Nursing Trainees, the millions of unemployed youth and cocoa farmers.
He said:“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.”
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Making reference to his recent economic lecture in which he posed some 170 questions president Mahama, Dr Alhaji Bawumia said the president and his vice president are running away from answering his questions.
“The President should go and debate with the people of Ghana who are suffering. That is where the real debate is. When I presented my last lecture on the economy, I presented facts and figures. I made 170 statements at least in that lecture. Now instead of responding to that lecture, he and his vice-president are running away from those facts. If they want a debate on the economy, they should start with responding to those 170 facts in my lecture. They don’t want to because they cannot. They cannot stand the truth, they cannot stand the facts”, he noted.
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