{"id":1075573,"date":"2022-05-04T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/bawumia-has-clearly-fallen-from-his-ivory-tower-to-a-poster-boy-for-economic-mismanagement-mahama-mocks-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:45:03","slug":"bawumia-has-clearly-fallen-from-his-ivory-tower-to-a-poster-boy-for-economic-mismanagement-mahama-mocks-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/bawumia-has-clearly-fallen-from-his-ivory-tower-to-a-poster-boy-for-economic-mismanagement-mahama-mocks-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia Has Clearly Fallen From His &#8220;Ivory Tower&#8221; To a &#8220;Poster Boy For Economic Mismanagement&#8221; \u2013 Mahama Mocks | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John Dramani Mahama wants Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia removed as the Chairman of the Economic Management Team with an immediate effect.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He is calling for a \u2018fresh brain\u2019 to occupy the opposition to save the country from its current economic challenges.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>To him, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia&#8217;s self-praise as the \u2018messiah\u2019 of Ghana\u2019s economy was a scam.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><em>\u201cThe current head of the Economic Management Team [Dr. Bawumia] has clearly fallen from his ivory tower as a self-styled economic messiah to a poster boy for economic mismanagement, and his leadership of the Economic Management team is no longer tenable,\u201d<\/em> Mahama said at his \u2018Ghana at a crossroads\u2019 lecture in Accra on Monday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He added that the entire membership of the economic management team must be revised.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><em>\u201cThe economic management team has failed and must be reconstituted immediately with fresh ideas and perspectives having supervised the worst public debt build-up, worst budget deficit, worst debt to GDP ratio, worst credit rating downgrade, worst-performing currency in the world, worst crisis of confidence in the economy,\u201d<\/em> The 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) noted.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo\/peacefmonline.com\/ghana<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. 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