Mahama Should Learn To Read – Dr Bawumia EMBARRASSES The President

It seems to me that no one in the NPP gets under the President’s skin more than Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. He has been at the forefront of attacks against the President launched by the NPP, and his public lectures always drag down the NDC’s economic performance.
So when the President took to a podium in Ablekuma North Tuesday, he thought he had found a winning strategy by attacking the NPP’s (and by extension Bawumia’s) integrity and competence by alleging they have not been able to disclose to Ghanaians how much the redenomination exercise cost.
He told a teeming crowd at an NDC rally…

“Do we remember the cedi redenomination under President Kufuor. During that time, someone [Bawumia] was the Deputy Bank of Ghana Governor and up till now, even me as a President do not know the cost of the redenomination exercise.
“Up till today, no Ghanaian knows the cost of the redenomination exercise and the same people come and say someone is incompetent. When you redenominated the cedi how much did it cost us? Simple things like these you cannot tell us and you have the nerve to come and talk about corruption. Look in the mirror and look at yourselves.
“Take the log out of your eye before you point at the mote in somebody’s eye. Only God doesn’t make mistakes. I am human, I am not God”

Turns out he could not have been more wrong if he tried. A few hours after his speech, the NPP vice presidential candidate took to Facebook to thoroughly debunk the President’s claim that the cost was unknown, and thus utterly obliterate the basis for his self righteous speech.
He wrote, accompanying a link of a 2007 article disclosing the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise…

Mr. President, care to read?
Today’s request for disclosure on the 2007 redenomination is another demonstration of incompetence. Apart from the fact that the then Governor disclosed the cost as far back as 2007, if the President really wanted to find out the cost of the redenomination, he could simply have asked his VEEP who was Bank of Ghana Governor, especially when the President was Head of the Economic Management Team between 2009 and 2012.

Dr Bawumia went on to condemn the ‘petty propaganda’ that the President indulged in his speech, saying it should be beneath someone occupying that high office.

Such petty propaganda should be beneath someone of the stature of a President. It is clear he is very poorly briefed, but when a President decides to join the bandwagon of propaganda , he only ends up embarrassing himself.