{"id":8933,"date":"2024-11-12T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:10:32","slug":"economic-mess-ken-ofori-atta-ran-the-show-dont-blame-bawumia-assibey-yeboah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8933","title":{"rendered":"Economic mess: \u2018Ken Ofori-Atta ran the show; don\u2019t blame Bawumia\u2019 \u2013 Assibey-Yeboah."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, Chairman of the Economic Sub-Committee for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Manifesto, has defended the party\u2019s Presidential Candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, against criticisms associating him with Ghana\u2019s recent economic challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Assibey-Yeboah maintained that the responsibility for managing the economy primarily lay with former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and other economic managers, rather than with the Vice President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview , November 11, Dr. Assibey-Yeboah argued that, although Dr. Bawumia held a prominent role in government as Vice President, his responsibilities did not include the direct management of the national economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, he highlighted that Dr. Bawumia\u2019s focus was on initiatives such as digital transformation and financial inclusion, leaving economic management largely to the Finance Ministry and associated agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Assibey-Yeboah urged voters to consider Dr. Bawumia\u2019s capabilities and his proven track record in innovation and modernisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-a565e6866d69d99647572664bbbdc6ec ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7QIGpt4iDEc?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He appealed to Ghanaians to support Dr. Bawumia in the upcoming elections, noting that his achievements in digital reforms have positively impacted various sectors and improved accessibility for citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expressing confidence in Dr. Bawumia\u2019s leadership, Dr. Assibey-Yeboah stated that he believes Dr. Bawumia is well-equipped to lead the country through economic recovery and further transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He concluded by urging Ghanaians to give Dr. Bawumia the mandate to revitalise and advance Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis school of thought that if you are a Vice President, are you really in charge? We want to put everything on his doorstep. But you and I know that people like Ken Ofori-Atta [former Finance Minister] ran the show. Even though he\u2019s the Vice President what is his day-to-day mandate as it were?&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo now, he\u2019s saying that give me the opportunity. The Economic Management Team is a creation of a President, it is not on our books.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, Chairman of the Economic Sub-Committee for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Manifesto, has defended the party\u2019s Presidential Candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, against criticisms associating him with Ghana\u2019s recent economic challenges. Dr. Assibey-Yeboah maintained that the responsibility for managing the economy primarily lay with former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and other economic managers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[864,2906,2907],"class_list":["post-8933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-bawumia","tag-economic-mess","tag-ofori-atta-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8935,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions\/8935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}