Former President John Dramani Mahama, National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate for Election 2024, has posed a few questions for the attention of Vice President and New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

Mahama wants Bawumia to answer the questions just as he once demanded answers to 170 statements and claims from then-Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur.

Speaking during his tour of the Northern Region, John Mahama said the NPP flagbearer has shifted focus from his economic lectures to pursuing digitalisation initiatives, and this shift, according to him, indicates a neglect of pressing economic issues that need addressing.

According to John Mahama, Dr Bawumia was very vocal about economic issues, including doing “gbegbegbegbe about the economy,” however, “today he can’t mention ‘economy’, it is not in his vocabulary. Anytime he opens his mouth ‘digitalisation.”

Questions for Bawumia

1. Why is the exchange rate GH¢17 cedis to $1?

2. Why has Ghana’s debt risen from GH¢120 billion to GH¢767 billion in eight years?

3. Why is inflation where it is, why did it rise to 54 per cent under your administration for eight years?

4. Why did you borrow GH¢42 billion from the Bank of Ghana and cause the Central Bank to post its heaviest loss of GH¢60 billion?

5. Why have you run away from giving lectures on the economy?

Joy News’ Maxwell Agbagba, who is covering the campaign tour of the former president, has more in the following report.

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