According to Stan Dogbe, a former presidential employee, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia “undoubtedly self-engineered” Ghana’s current economic problems.
He believes that the Vice President, who also serves as the Head of the Economic Management Team, is unqualified to address pressing economic issues.
Mr. Bawumia “lacks a practical understanding of the subtleties of political economics, which unjustly served him well because most accountability agents failed to ask him the essential questions,” the author claimed in a Facebook post.
He added: “As a lesson, in managing an economy, consensus is the key and any person who chooses to alienate an entire political group merely to achieve a narrow end, is never fit for purpose. Indeed, running a nation is really a serious business. Dr. Bawumia lacks the credibility, ideas, the wherewithal, the gravitas, and competence to build a consensual broad-based strategy.
“His approach to politics is severely divisive, pitching tribes against tribes, religion against religion, and alienating a whole group of professionals (who dared to disagree with him) through name-calling, insults, and ridicule.”
Mr. Dogbe stated, “Dr. Bawumia’s inability to understand the complex interplay of variables of political economy (as clearly displayed by his overly simplistic view of things) to move Ghana beyond any crisis is a major intellectual deficiency he must learn to overcome.”
He believes Ghana’s current economic abyss may linger for a while despite frantic efforts to get an IMF-supported programme to restore macroeconomic stability.