Speaking to Accra-based Citi FM, a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP Anthony Karbo said: “we would only debate this president if he [Mahama] is minded to respond to the 170 questions we had put to before this president about the state of this country’s economy.”

He argued that they cannot respond to someone who has decided to ignore their questions and yet is calling for a debate.

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“We asked this President 170 questions on this economy; on his leadership as vice President and head of the Economic Management Team and as the President of the Republic for the last four years.”

“The President blindly ignores us, refuses to answer these questions, none of his appointees even responds and yet the President expects a response from us to a challenge.”

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Karbo, however, believes the Ghanaian electorate has already decided which party to for in the upcoming elections.

he said.

The Vice Presidential Candidate of NPP Dr Mahamudu Bawumia asked President Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Ammisah Arthur to respond to 170 questions after a lecture on the state of the economy.

The lecture by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was on the theme: “The State of the Ghanaian Economy: A foundation of Concrete or of Straw,” and was also chaired by former president John Agyekum Kufuor.