{"id":247174,"date":"2016-09-10T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=247174"},"modified":"2016-09-10T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T14:00:07","slug":"bawumias-lecture-on-economy-pure-politics-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/bawumias-lecture-on-economy-pure-politics-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia’s lecture on economy pure politics – Casely-Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"
Financial analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has said attempts to over-analyse the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s lecture on the Ghanaian economy are futile because it was simply a political exercise and part of the NPP campaign.<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong>, Mr. Casely-Hayford said of the lecture, \u201cthis is a political delivery so you have to look at the politics and stop stressing about the economics.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”cHlxqUcHkp7dp2kXC4STFbJOWpxJoskI”]He further described as nonsensical the expectations that Dr. Bawumia would deliver objective analysis of the state of the Ghanaian to ostensibly favor the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n “There is this assumption that Bawumia comes to deliver a speech and he should be delivering his speech in a professional capacity of sorts, that he is an economic guru\u2026 because he is an economics guru, he should be clinically clean and not be using numbers in his favour. Honestly, with all due respect, I find that argument a lot of nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bottom line is the man is there as a vice presidential candidate for the main opposition party. Why would he go and stand on the platform and go and do things and interpretations that will favor his opponent. It is totally illogical.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Casely-Hayford also said the purpose of Dr. Bawumia’s delivery was to reinforce to NPP supporters that “we are better so go with us. Then if there is anybody out there who is in doubt, he is saying this is what we can do so watch very carefully and follow us.\u201d<\/p>\n