Tony Aidoo calls Bawumia a flip flopper, self-styled economic whizz-kid of NPP

Former Ambassador to the Netherlands, Dr Tony Aidoo has described the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as a flip flopper and a self-styled economic whizz-kid(genius) of the governing New Patriotic Party.

Speaking on Alhaji and Alhaji on Pan African TV on Saturday, January 15 monitored by GhanaPlus.com, Dr Aidoo also said Dr Bawumia is a lair, not discipline, inconsistent and lacks credibility.

He made the comment while contributing to discussions on the race to the NPP’s 2024 flagbearership elections.

According to him, dealing with the crises of credibility will be the major obstacle the Vice President will have to surmount if elected to lead the party in the 2024 elections.

 “For Bawumia in particular, his hurdle is the crises of credibility. Who want to vote for a person who has proven himself to be a lair, a flip flopper, a man who is not discipline, a man who calls his political opponent all kind of derogatory name. The word incompetent which stack with President John Mahama was coined by Bawumia and over the period he had make sure that in every platform he make innuendos’ towards the competence or the incompetence of  formal President Mahama and he does it with the most annoying  guffaws and do you know what the word  guffaws means, belly laugh is amazing,” Tony Aidoo noted.

Tony Aidoo questions Bawumia’s contradictory assertions on the economy

The National Democratic Congress stalwart raised questions about the contradictory assertions made by the Vice President on the country’s economy debt sustainability adding “that is why I say he is your ideal flip flopper, he lacks credibility”.

“But this is a man who has managed Akufo’Addo’s economic management team since 2017 and he is full of ideational contradictory, one day he says when the fundamentals are wrong, the exchange rate will expose you. The next day he says when the exchange rate is fluctuating it does not mean the fundamentals are wrong eii! Like the heirs said to Alice in the wonderland say what you mean and mean what you say. But this flip flopper, self styled or acclaimed to be an economic whizz-kid of the NPP is so inconsistent,” he noted.

“I recall not too long ago when the issue of Ghana’s national indebtedness came to the fore front of discussions Dr Bawumia said , even though we have borrowed, in nominal terms  more than the NDC we have manage the debt portfolio better because we borrowed  at lesser rate, percentages, what has percentages got to do with your debt sustainability calculations. When your debt sustainability is calculated it is not the parentage at which you borrowed, that is important it is the quantum sum of debt incumbent upon you .When you go and service your loan the rate at which you have to service is not calculated at the percentages at which you have borrowed but on the quantum sum.That is why I say he is your ideal flip flopper, he lacks credibility,” Tony Aidoo said.

Source: GhanaPlus.com