Mahama Responds To Bawumia's 50 Questions

In a debate over the trend of Ghana's economy, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama, has challenged Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to provide direct answers to five economic questions he has asked.  The former President labelled the strategy adopted by the second gentleman as an attempt to talk his way around pressing economic issues confronting Ghanaians with the release of 50 counter-questions.

John Dramani Mahama sent out five questions to Mahamudu Bawumia, to which he expected answers from him as the latter claimed Mahama's regime did not provide the country with any beneficial projects. As all anticipated Bawumia's response to these five questions, the Vice President also sent out fifty questions to Mahama asking him to answer them. 

Speaking during his Northern Regional tour in Savelugu, Mahama likened Bawumia's approach to a "kindergarten kid" reciting a newly learned rhyme, suggesting the Vice President's long list was more rhetoric than any genuine attempt at fixing the economy. "I woke up this morning to see 50 questions for me. But it appears the Vice President has only just learnt those things, like how we learn rhymes," Mahama snickered, inviting Bawumia to respond to his "five simple questions on the economy."

The continued argument has been the insistence by Mahama that the economic crisis in Ghana must be the priority this election season. He drew a historical parallel to the 1992 U.S. presidential race between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, in which Clinton's campaign famously said that the economy was issue number one. "It's about the economy," Mahama echoed, insisting this election isn't about infrastructure counts or "useless things."

As Ghana's election heats up, Mahama's insistence on these economic questions underlines perhaps the most critical issue for Ghanaians ahead of the polls.