“Man up, Mahama, and debate me,” Bawumia responds with fifty questions.

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has angrily reacted to recent enquiries by former President John Mahama regarding his vice presidential record.

Instead of employing “flimsy questions,” the vice president urged Mr. Mahama to have a candid discussion.

Mahama’s five-question challenge to Dr. Bawumia, which was reminiscent of the 170 questions he asked then-Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur prior to the 2016 election, prompted this demand.
Dr. Bawumia pointedly invited Mr. Mahama in his answer, saying,

In order for the Ghanaian public to evaluate our respective policies, accomplishments, and goals, I would have assumed he would be brave enough to debate me one-on-one. He shouldn’t use these weak questions as a shield to avoid a discussion.

In addition, Dr. Bawumia offered his own list of fifty questions concerning Mr. Mahama’s record on infrastructure, social intervention policies, and the economy, saying that Mahama’s questions were insufficient for the more “substantive” topics he was ready to discuss.

He challenged Mahama on NDC goals ranging from infrastructural expansion to educational reforms, saying, “Come for a debate, and I can ask the moderators to ask me these five flimsy questions.”