John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of lying during a media encounter on Sunday, August 25, the day after the NDC launched its manifesto.
Mr. Mahama believes Dr. Bawumia’s “sudden stammering” exposed him during the encounter.
Mr. Mahama further criticized Dr. Bawumia and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for using the media encounter to distract Ghanaians from the NDC manifesto.
Speaking on the first day of his two-day campaign in Ada as part of his Greater Accra Regional tour on Tuesday, August 27, Mr. Mahama remarked, “Just yesterday, the Cedi crossed the 16 Cedi to one dollar barrier. When you act with deceitful intentions, it backfires.
We announced our manifesto launch for August 24, and immediately our opponents scheduled their media encounter for August 25, the very next day.”
“The intention for doing that media encounter the next day after we had announced our manifesto was to get the attention of Ghanaians from the NDC manifesto, that was the main reason that they decided to do a media encounter the very next day after we launched our manifesto.
“When you do something with devious intentions, it backfires on you.
You know how to tell if people are lying, if there are people who are smooth talkers who can speak like machine guns, the time when they become stammerers you know they are lying.
Somebody who has been speaking ‘ratatatata’ like AK 47 suddenly, at media encounter, starts stammering.”
