The NPP 2024 flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has mocked the governing NDC’s flagship 24-hour economy promise as empty rhetoric amid what he says is the worsening power outages.
Speaking during an interaction with members of the Young Executive Forum (YEF) in London as part of his post-election Thank You Tour of the UK, the former Vice President questioned the practicality of sustaining a round-the-clock economy without stable electricity.
“They told us they will bring in a 24-hour economy. This is their flagship promise, their flagship policy, 24-hour economy,” he recalled.
“Of course, we all knew it was a joke…Today, it’s completely missing from their policy. They are not even talking about it. It didn’t appear in their budget.”
Then came his sharpest jab: “How can you have a 24-hour economy with dumsor at the same time? I mean, you can’t.”
The former Vice President accused the NDC of returning the country to an era of chronic power crises, arguing that the current situation proves the NPP’s earlier warnings correct.
“Dumsor has taken over, and we warned Ghanaians that dumsor and NDC work together, and that was going to happen. Ghanaians didn’t listen, but we basically have been proven right,” he said.
“Dumsor is pretty bad, and it’s likely to get worse from what we can see.”