According to Dennis Miracles Aboagye, a spokesman for the vice president’s campaign team, the president expressly assigned Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to head the government’s digitization initiative, which is meant to promote socioeconomic development.
Mr. Aboagye stressed that Dr. Bawumia was the only one given this job, and he successfully carried it out.
The NPP’s 2024 presidential contender, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has already been under fire for his “driver’s mate comment,” which he made in Accra last week. He has also been accused of dodging accountability.
However, Mr. Aboagye stressed that Dr. Bawumia did not intend to separate himself from his obligations with the comment during an interview with Accra-based Asaase Radio on Monday, February 12.
“But of course, the economic management team (EMT) is not the manager of the economy, they are only an advisory board to cabinet …so the real decision as to what happens at any time is with cabinet and not EMT.”
“Then, he went on to say that, as a vice-president, his job is to support the president’s vision and the president’s execution of that vision, and that the president assigned him a specific responsibility.”
“Which is to re-engineer the digital space, to make it the mainstay of the economy going into the future, and that is what he did, so his office was mandated specifically to focus on an aspect of the economy, which was to re-engineer the digital space and ensures that it drives economic growth going into the future,” Miracles Aboagye said.
