Ernest Owusu-Bempah
Ernest Owusu-Bempah, a Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP, has challenged the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to point to a single lie told by NPP flagbearer Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia since his political career began.
According to Owusu-Bempah, the NDC has been tagging the Vice President as a liar, and as a result, he has thrown a challenge to them.
He explained that every single promise made by Dr. Bawumia relating to the economy has come to pass; therefore, the attempt by the NDC to call him a liar will not materialize.
“What has Bawumia said that shows he is a liar? What the NDC is doing is ‘gobelien’ propaganda, it means to tell a lie, continue to tell a lie and it will be the truth.
“What has Bawumia said that has not come to pass that the NDC claims he is a liar? We are daring the NDC to come out and tell us, through his political career, what Bawumia said he would do that he didn’t,” 3news.com quoted him to have said in an interview on August 1, 2024.
It may be recalled that the National Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah brushed aside calls for a presidential debate between the flagbearer of his party, former President John Dramani Mahama, and that of Bawumia.
Speaking in an interview on Okay FM on Monday, July 22, 2024, Asiedu Nketiah indicated that there was no need for the debate.
He said that the vice president, who has also called for the debate, should focus on debating his records and statements he made in the past when he was in opposition because he is being found out by Ghanaians.
He took a swipe at Dr Bawumia, saying that if he (the vice president) is asked to defend his "We’ve arrested that dollar and given the key to the IGP" statement, he would say that the IGP they gave the key to is no more in office.
“Do you know what he would be coming to say? He would say that the IGP who had the key to the arrested dollar has been fired and that is why the cedi is depreciating. Are these issues what we will be debating?
“The important thing is that he would go and debate his record. Because his record has come seriously under fire. He has enough debating to do by himself. So, he should go for his record and debate the issues in it, the elections would be done before he even finishes,” the NDC national chairman said in Twi.
He also indicated that Dr Bawumia can also use the time for the debate to answer the 170 questions he asked the late former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur when he was in opposition.
“He should take his marking scheme for the 170 questions that tell us how it applies to the questions he asked. And he should also start being truthful,” he added.
AM/EK
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