{"id":95813,"date":"2025-09-25T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95813"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:35:20","slug":"by-gods-grace-president-mahama-has-now-admitted-covid-19-impacted-our-economy-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95813","title":{"rendered":"By God\u2019s grace President Mahama has now admitted Covid-19 impacted our economy \u2013 Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that President Mahama\u2019s admission that the Covid-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the economy of Ghana is \u201cby the grace of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue of whether the deadly global pandemic which hit the world between 2020 and 2022 became topical in Ghana\u2019s 2024 election campaign, with contrasting positions by the two main political parties.<\/p>\n

While the then ruling NPP insisted the pandemic set the economy back with uncertain markets and revenue cuts, leading to soaring cost of living, the opposition NDC, led by President Mahama rejected the then government\u2019s claim that, maintaining that Covid-19 did not have any negative impact on Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

However, in New York, at a side event of the 80th UN General Assembly, President Mahama conceded that Covid-19 indeed has had a devastating impact on Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Covid-19 pandemic erased two decades of poverty reduction in less than two years,\u201d President Mahama said at the event.<\/p>\n

Responding to the development during his campaign tour of the Eastern Region, Dr. Bawumia said the President knew the truth during the 2024 election campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom 2022 when the impact of covid-19 hit the country\u2019s economy, prices of goods and went up . And during the 2024 election, we said that the cost of living had been largely impacted by covid-19 and the Russian-Ukraine war. When wr said that, Presidemt Mahama and the NDC said we were lying,\u201d Dr. Bawumia said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said covid-19 had no impact on the economy . They said it was rather economic mismanagement. But I have read that Presidemt Mahama in New York has said that covid-19 really impacted economies. He said a lot of our poverty reduction efforts in many many years have been twarted by covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President knew the truth but he didn\u2019t say it during the campaign. But by the grace of God he has now said the truth. And by God\u2019s grace, we will all see the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n