Kweku Baako dismisses Mahama's call for presidential debate

Abu Mubarik 12:07 - 22 October 2016

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The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper said that given the "timing" and sequence of events, a debate between the main contenders of the 2016 elections will have no effect.

Veteran Journalist Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has dismissed President John Mahamas challenge to Nana Akufo-Addo for a presidential debate.

He was speaking on Joy FM's current affairs programme Newsfile on Saturday.

“The president’s call for a one-on-one debate with Nana Addo…was dead on arrival, completely dead on arrival,” he said.

He also took on the president's double stands on presidential debate, recalling instances the president refused to participate in an IEA sponsored debate.

He asked: “What has changed that now the leader of the NDC, our president, will be calling for a one-to-one? The other political parties are dead and gone? Are they still around? Are they insignificant? Will that not be discriminatory? Where is the principle, where is the consistency? Where is the conviction?”