Deputy Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, has dared the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to identify any falsehood uttered by NPP flagbearer Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia since the start of his political career.
Owusu-Bempah accused the NDC of labeling Vice President Bawumia as a liar and has challenged them to substantiate their claims. He asserted that every economic promise made by Dr. Bawumia has been fulfilled, dismissing the NDC’s attempts to discredit him as futile.
“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 is worth noting that Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the National Chairman of the NDC, dismissed the idea of a presidential debate between his party’s flagbearer, former President John Dramani Mahama, and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
In an interview with Okay FM on Monday, July 22, 2024, Asiedu Nketiah stated that such a debate was unnecessary.
He suggested that the vice president, who had also called for the debate, should instead concentrate on addressing his own past records and statements made while he was in opposition, as Ghanaians are now holding him accountable.
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.