Ghana’s former ambassador to the Netherlands Dr Tony Aidoo believes Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was the fulcrum of the New Patriotic Party’s 2016 election triumph.
The vociferous diplomat noted the then vice presidential candidate of the NPP had a field day with his economic analysis and lectures ahead of the general polls.
He stressed the ruling NDC then failed to counter the former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana “with the facts”.
“What I missed was the inability of the NDC communication team to bring out the facts so as to challenge the comparative analysis that Dr Bawumia was making. Dr Bawumia was the Achilles heel of the NDC not only for the 2016 elections but he started way back in 2012,” the former Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation at the Presidency told Accra-based TV3.
Dr. Aidoo averred Bawumia’s “comparative analysis and conclusions” were mostly “flawed” but the NDC lacked a communicator with institutional memory to put the discourse into the right perspective.
“If you don’t have people with historical recall, administrative memory then seriously your communication becomes defective”.
According to him, Dr. Bawumia, who is Ghana’s vice president now “ignored the fact that for the most part of the Kufuor administration; the eight years was virtually carried by donor financial support. All the social interventions that Kufuor implemented were donor supported.”
Asked whether the former vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur should have dared Dr. Bawumia, he opined: “Maybe he should have [spoken] on the hindsight.”
