I am ready to discuss Bawumia – Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang

Politics of Tuesday October 13, 2020

Source: Starr FM

2020-10-13

NDC career partner Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang says she is prepared to debate with Vice President Mahama Bawumia.

When asked by Nana Aba Anamoah on GHOne TV if she was ready for a face-to-face with the second gentleman on earth, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast replied, “Why not? and if he debates economics, I will debate literature ”.

She also rejected claims that she cannot be president of the economic management team because she is not an economist.

“My critics are mostly from the PNP, in your own party, they have had Aliu Mahama, was he an economist? Veep presides over police cancellation, should I be a security man? I am not an economist but I understand economics. Why, is it a requirement that the veep be an economist? Since when did that become part of it? “She wondered.

Mahama challenges Akufo-Addo to debate

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, proposes a debate of delivery trajectory with President Akufo-Addo.

Addressing Dzolokpuita chiefs and elders in the Ho West constituency as part of his four-day tour of the Volta region on Wednesday, Mahama said the PNP in 2016 did not appreciate the value of his government’s investments in critical infrastructure.

“In 2016 when I was talking about the value of infrastructure, my friends on the other side said, we don’t eat infrastructure, we don’t eat roads, that’s what they said and today I can see a struggle to take even KVIP and any infrastructure and promote it as an achievement” , He said.

Mahama said that the infrastructure records problem is easy to solve, however, especially since the NDC has a superior track record of investing in infrastructure across the country, adding that it is ready to discuss with President Akufo-Addo at any time. forum.

“The president said that this election is going to be a background election, comparing his record with my record and we can easily figure it out. Let’s have a debate between the two presidents about our records, ”he said.