Bawumia Poses 50 Questions to Mahama; Mahama Claps Back

Recently, former President John Dramani Mahama posed five questions to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. In response, Dr. Bawumia retaliated with 50 questions directed at Mahama. 

While Bawumia addressed Mahama’s questions, he did not answer them directly. Rather, he says he thought Mahama would be “man enough” to face him in a debate so Ghanaians can compare their respective policies. “I have just read questions   posed to me by former president Mahama.   I would have thought he would be man enough   to face me in a one-on-one debate for the Ghanaian public to assess our respective policies, achievements, and vision,” he hit back.

He also accused Mahama of hiding behind these questions to evade the debate he requested some time back. “He should not hide behind these flimsy questions to avoid a debate.  Come for a debate, and I can ask the moderators to ask me these five flimsy questions, but I have many more substantive questions for him,” he said.

The questions Bawumia directed at Mahama encompasses why the National Demcratic Congress (NDC) was against the free Senior High School policy, why teachers and nurses’ allowances was cancelled, why GDP growth under his government was low and other health care questions like why the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has constructed more hospitals than the NDC did.

Mahama also clapped back after Bawumia posed his 50 questions to him. “I woke up this morning and saw 50 questions from him. It looks like our Vice President has just memorized these things like we used to learn poems in primary school. I asked you five simple questions that Ghanaians want you to answer, and instead, you respond with, ‘How many compost plants did you build?’ That’s not the issue in Ghana today,” Mahama retorted.

At present, there is no specified date for a debate between the two, and both presidential aspirants have yet to give direct answers to the questions posed to each other.