President Akufo-Addo bestowed a new nickname upon his Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, during the 2024 State of the Nation Address in Parliament.
Referring to him as “Dr. Digitalisation,” Akufo-Addo praised Bawumia for spearheading Ghana’s digitalisation drive over the past seven years.
Akufo-Addo highlighted the government’s commitment to digitalisation, calling it the “Digitalization government.”
He announced a new initiative, the Performance Tracker, which aims to provide transparency by allowing everyone to check on every government project.
“This year we are taking things to a higher level. This government after all is the Digitalization government and the man who has led the entire digitalisation process these past 7 years, my indefatigable Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Digitalization.
“The NPP’s excellent president candidate for the 2024 elections is coming up with what will allow everyone and everybody and anyone to check on every project undertaken by the government.
“We are calling it the Performance Tracker,” he said.
The nickname “Dr. Digitalisation” received strong condemnation from the Minority in Parliament.
Prior to this, Dr Bawumia was tagged as “Economic Wizard” and “Economic Maguire” owing to his in-depth knowledge of Economics and his inability to resolve Ghana’s economic crisis, respectively.