Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Vice Chairman of the Bawumia Manifesto Committee, has accused National Democratic Congress presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama of capitalizing on citizens’ economic concerns without offering any meaningful solutions.
This statement comes in response to Mahama’s challenge for Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to answer five critical economic questions, rather than resorting to “50 irrelevant counter-questions” and a debate challenge.
In an interview on Eyewitness News on Thursday, October 2024, Oppong Nkrumah urged Mahama to provide actionable solutions to tackle the pressing economic issues facing the country.
He argued that engaging in a debate would enable Ghanaians to assess which candidate has the most viable plans for the nation.
“Mahama is going around the country shouting that the cost of living is high and inflation has gone to 54% and we all know the global cost of living is high and any class 4 boy who picks a phone and googles global cost-of-living crisis will get answers to why the cost of living has gone up all over the world including Ghana.
“But if you look into our manifesto and if you listen to Dr Bawumia, he has proposed solutions to the cost of living, solutions to transport fares, energy prices, and fuel prices. Mahama is going around the country, capitalizing on people’s genuine concerns about these things and he has not offered a single solution.
“Dr Bawumia wants to sit down with him, debate and say to him in the face ‘These are the causes of the high cost of living and these are my solutions where are your solutions beyond going around and reciting rhymes like he is doing on the campaign trail,” he stated.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah continued: “What are your solutions? If he wants to sit with him and have a debate with him on the solutions so that the good people of Ghana at home can compare the solutions and realise that one person has solutions that are feasible and workable and the other person is just capitalising on global challenges, some of which have hit us, and he is reciting rhymes as he is doing on campaign stages across the country.”
