Political Analyst and a Lecturer at Cape Coast University, Jonathan Asante Okyere has urged the Vice President to talk as a Statesman, and not as if he is on a campaign platform.
“As a vice president he has to show respect, such an attitude is of arrogance and if he is not careful the New Patriotic Party(NPP) will lose just because of his attitude. He said
Dr Bawumia in response to Mahama’s comment said “the current government has not done much in terms of infrastructure and that has badly affected the fight against covid19”
‘If you want to test the robustness of an economy you test it in time of crisis, thankfully we have had two crisis. Under the NDC, it was an internally generated crisis which was dumsor. Under the presidency of Nana Akufo Addo has been an externally generated crisis which has been the global corona virus pandemic.”
“We have been able to perform much better than the situation we inherited, in fact the data is very clear so my advice to Mahama is to look at data before you speak or will end up embarrassing yourself, the data has been very clear , Agriculture, industry, inflation, interest rate, creation of jobs we have done better than his administration.”
Jonathan in an interview on Ahotor 92.3 fm added that the Vice president, Dr Mamoud Bawumia can not compare health to that of power.
” we saw that even during dumsor, electricity prices were being increased, fuel prices were being increased, teacher trainee allowances were being cancelled, nursing trainee training allowances were being cancelled, all of that was happening during that particular crisis’.
“You look at the corona virus crisis and you look at the difference in terms of what has happened. The president has reduced electricity prices and has made it free for life line consumers. He has given free water to all Ghanaians for three months, has made sure that there is stimulus package of 600 million Ghana cedis for business and we have seen domestic production of Personal Protective Equipment(PPES) for our health workers locally.” he said
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