Ranking member of the Finance Committee in Parliament, Isaac Adongo, has mocked Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the first Ghanaian economist with the most venomous vision ever for the country.
He questioned the record the Vice President intends to use to contest the presidency judging from his performance so far.
Dr. Bawumia, he said, is looking to be President after putting Ghana’s economy on life support and plunging the Ghanaian people into the worse economic hardship ever.
“He now wants to be president with his venomous vision to discount us from the last support to kill us completely,” he said.
Mr. Adongo was speaking to the media on Wednesday, June 21 on some of the comments the Vice President made after he filed his nomination last Friday.
He stated Dr. Bawumia who schooled, taught, and practiced as an economist for several years of his adult life has now abandoned his profession and running away from his field of training.
Hon Adongo wondered how the Vice President can profess to be a digitalization expert just by reading some literature on the internet.
He quizzed, “How can reading some literature on Yahoo turn Dr. Bawumia into a digitalization expert?”
“After achieving the unenviable record of leading Ghana to the IMF, breaking all negative records of economic management, and running away from his trained specialization of economics to digitalization what has he to offer?”
“Just in case your Google search did not equip you enough to understand digitization, let me help you understand that digitalization thrives on internet and telecom infrastructure and to demonstrate the unparallel record of the NDC and John Dramani to anchor Ghana’s digital economy and challenge you to show us your record of investment in digital infrastructure,” he added.
The Ranking member argued if Dr. Bawumia has any iota of credibility, a modicum of shame in the eye, and respect for Ghanaians, he would stay away from contemplating contesting to be president.