Dennis Miracles Aboagye, spokesperson for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2024 campaign team, has asserted that Dr. Bawumia’s economic achievements as Vice President surpass those of former President John Mahama.
He credited this to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s implementation of effective strategies to tackle economic challenges and stabilize the cedi.
During an interview on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Monday, Aboagye acknowledged the cedi’s depreciation against the dollar but argued that the NPP has still outperformed the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration. He highlighted structural improvements and initiatives designed to strengthen economic fundamentals.
You can engage in all the propaganda you want, but if the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you
When questioned about Dr. Bawumia’s prospects in the December election considering the current economic climate, Aboagye responded confidently, “Why not? Among all candidates on the ballot, Dr. Bawumia’s record is unmatched.”
Between Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and John Mahama, the two persons and the two governments, we have evidence of a government that has deliberately put in place mechanisms and structures to ensure that we rebuild these weak fundamentals to ensure that we will be able to fix this permanently
Aboagye further clarified that Dr. Bawumia’s remarks on the exchange rate were not directed at Mahama, but rather at the economic structure itself.
He’s (Bawumia) always insisted that that statement he made then is still true and remains and it hasn’t changed. The statement was not meant to flaw anybody. It was meant to make a statement about the structure of our economy.
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s point has always been the fact we are running a Guggisberg economy, an economy that is import dependent, an economy that lacks the fundamentals that would ensure that we have the industries that are building and manufacturing the things that we use in this country so that we would have a very strong currency…It is targeted at our economy
