{"id":260047,"date":"2016-10-20T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=260047"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:00:26","slug":"mahamas-debate-challenge-hypocritical-mustapha-hamid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/mahamas-debate-challenge-hypocritical-mustapha-hamid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama’s debate challenge hypocritical – Mustapha Hamid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mustapha Hamid, Spokesperson for the opposition New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, has rubbished President John Mahama\u2019s calls for a one-one-one debate with the NPP flagbearer as hypocritical and insincere rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hamid argued that if President Mahama was truly serious about debating Nana Akufo-Addo, he would have written an official letter to the NPP challenging the NPP Presidential Candidate to a debate.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”VZw6ghfETmUrdP9hWb2i3ztikNJXCvSS”]Earlier today [Thursday] President Mahama reiterated his calls <\/a><\/strong><\/span>for a debate with Nana Akufo-Addo saying it would afford both parties to set the record straight on a number of issues including the state of the economy.<\/p>\n

President Mahama suggested that the NPP was simply misinforming the electorate with propaganda and his challenge would ensure a statistics based debate on the economy.<\/p>\n

Mahama not using formal approach<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Mustapha Hamid retorted: \u201cIs that how debates are done? If you want to challenge Bukom Banku or Azumah Nelson to a boxing bout, you sit on radio and say I want Bukom Banku for a fight. Is that how it is done?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to challenge somebody to a debate, you write to him, the presidential candidate, New Patriotic Party\u2026 you write a letter, then you sign it, then it is delivered then we give you a response.\u00a0Then based on our response you can go to the public and say; I invited them to a debate and they didn\u2019t come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Hamid insisted that a more formal approach from the President Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) would be required if the debate calls were to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is his [Mahama’s] mentality for running institutions and we don\u2019t do that. It is not acceptable in the 21st century\u2026 we don\u2019t run institutions with our mouth. We do things properly and things are done by paper trail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also reminded that the NDC had boycotted the respected platform the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) had provided for a similar debate.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hamid said, \u201cthe IEA said that they had a timetable for presidential debates. He said that he was not interested in that so at what point did he realise that debates are suddenly interesting. So this is hypocritical, it is not sincere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NDC\u00a0directed all of its candidates, presidential and parliamentary, not to participate in any debate organised by the IEA ahead of the polls precisely because\u00a0the IEA\u2019s decided to hold\u00a0separate debate for the flagbearers of the NPP and NDC as well as what they termed as IEAs lack of consultation<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0before its announcement.<\/p>\n

Follow the hashtag #GhElections<\/strong> on Social Media for election related stories<\/em><\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mustapha Hamid, Spokesperson for the opposition New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, has rubbished President John Mahama\u2019s calls for a one-one-one debate with the NPP flagbearer as hypocritical and insincere rhetoric. Mr. Hamid argued that if President Mahama was truly serious about debating Nana Akufo-Addo, he would have written an official letter to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":243342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[2356,3,5062,464,156,129,56,12868],"yoast_head":"\nMahama's debate challenge hypocritical - Mustapha Hamid - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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