{"id":2392,"date":"2024-07-26T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2024-07-26T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:15:00","slug":"election-2024-mahama-hiding-behind-minority-in-parliament-to-evade-debate-with-bawumia-says-miracles-aboagye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"Election 2024: Mahama hiding behind Minority in Parliament to evade debate with Bawumia, says Miracles Aboagye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Spokesperson for the Bawumia Campaign Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye has said the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama is doing everything possible to evade a debate with the 2024 presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Minority in Parliament has invited Vice-President<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\/salaga-north-npp-constituency-chairman-alhaji-adam-mahama-passes-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Mahamudu Bawumia<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to participate in the debate on the Mid-Year Budget Review\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on Thursday (25 July).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a press statement, the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\/li-on-road-traffic-amendments-were-taken-aback-by-level-of-minority-dishonesty-says-tampuli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Minority<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0extended this public invitation to Vice-President Bawumia who serves as the chairman of the government\u2019s economic management team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cParliamentary rules permit a sitting vice-president to participate in debates on the floor of the House.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPursuant to the Vice President\u2019s recent call for a debate on the economy, this invitation presents Alhaji Bawumia an excellent opportunity and forum to debate and account for his stewardship over the last seven and a half years as chairman of the Economic Management Team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the Minority, they have lined up a crack team of highly knowledgeable and competent members to debate Vice-President Bawumia.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, speaking on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Asaase Breakfast Show<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0on Thursday (25 July), Aboagye said the Minority is being dramatic over the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cMr Mahama is trying too hard to evade this\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">very important<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0exercise of a debate and they are playing too much,\u00a0 it\u2019s too much drama.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI agree monkeys play by size and I agree that is why Bawumia is inviting his size\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0presidential candidate. Because as a presidential candidate, I believe that we all agree that his size in monkeys will be the presidential candidate of NDC (Mahama) and not surely the Members of Parliament by their\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">analogy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 Today, Dr Mahamudu has met that requirement, he is inviting you to a debate and you are hiding behind the Minority group in Parliament to evade it. It is ok if you don\u2019t want to debate, there is no gun to his head actually to come and debate,\u201d Aboagye said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\"><strong>www.asaaseradio.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson for the Bawumia Campaign Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye has said the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama is doing everything possible to evade a debate with the 2024 presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Minority in Parliament has invited Vice-President\u00a0Mahamudu Bawumia\u00a0to participate in the debate on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,71,69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-home","9":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Election 2024: Mahama hiding behind Minority in Parliament to evade debate with Bawumia, says Miracles Aboagye - Gh-newsbay<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2392\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election 2024: Mahama hiding behind Minority in Parliament to evade debate with Bawumia, says Miracles Aboagye - Gh-newsbay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spokesperson for the Bawumia Campaign Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye has said the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama is doing everything possible to evade a debate with the 2024 presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). 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