Afenyo-Markin Challenge Mahama To Debate Bawumia If He Wants To Become President Again

Majority Leader in Ghana’s parliament, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin has thrown a challenge flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, to accept a presidential debate challenge with flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia if he indeed desires to return to the presidency.

Vice President Bawumia has challenged Mr Mahama to a debate ahead of the December polls but the 2024 Mahama Campaign Team has declined the offer, arguing that nothing is left to debate about the economy and insisting that Mahama does not need a debate to sell his message.

Addressing journalists in Parliament on Tuesday July 23 after the presentation of the mid-year budget review, the Effutu lawmaker emphasised that John Mahama must accept the challenge.

“We’re calling on Mahama to accept the invitation by Dr Bawumia for a debate. We don’t want politics of insults, name-calling, insinuations and all. If indeed he’s determined to come back and wants to tell Ghanaians that he’s a changed man, I’m calling on him to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Dr Bawumia and debate on the issues.

“Dr Bawumia is ready to put the cards on the table. If he says we have not performed as a government, it’s only through a debate that he can put a point across,” the Majority Leader said.