Former President John Dramanai Mahama has poor records when it comes to the management of the economy, Nhyieaso Member of Parliament, Dr Stephen Amoah has said.

He said on the Key Points on TV3, Saturday that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will lose the next elections again if they select him as their flagbearer.

Dr Amoah was reacting to Mr Mahama’s call for the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to be removed as head of the Economic Management Team (EMT).

Mr Mahama also said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has supervised disastrous collapse of the economy therefore cannot and should not be part of the team of negotiators for the engagements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after government finally decided to go to the Bretton Woods institution for support.

In a statement welcoming the decision by the Akufo-Ado administration to head to the IMF, Mr Mahama said on Saturday July 2 that “The Finance Minister who has supervised the disastrous collapse of the economy cannot and should not be part of the team of negotiators. He has lost credibility and the trust and confidence of stakeholders in our economy. President Akufo-Addo must take a bold decision to replace his finance minister immediately with a more assured and competent person who is willing and able to work tirelessly to turn our almost hopeless situation around.

‘In addition, given his obvious failures, the Vice President must be relieved of his responsibility as Chair of the Economic Management Team to enable the President to reconstitute the team. We must draw useful lessons from this episode and avoid cheap politicking with the economy; that can only yield the disastrous outcomes that have brought us here,” Mr Mahama said in a Facebook post on Saturday July 2.

But Dr Stephen Amoah who is also a member of the Finance Committee of Parliament said that “The very person who is calling for the Finance Minister to be sacked, he messed up this country as never seen before. We were having guineafowls and all bus branding and he wants to come back.

“NDC shouldn’t choose him, if they choose former President John Mahama, NDC will lose and you will be shocked, you mark it. He has the worst record.”

President Akufo-Addo gave the instruction to Mr Ofori-Atta to commence the engagements with the IMF on Friday July 1 following a telephone conversation between the President and the IMF Managing Director, Miss Kristalina Georgieva, conveying Ghana’s decision to engage with the Fund.

The Ministry of Information announced this in a statement on Friday July 1.

A Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr John Kumah said an IMF programme would help the country to come out from the economic challenges faster.

He said the government hopes that the programme will benefit the country.

“Our objective as government is to restore confidence in the economy and rebound it from the difficulty, from the challenges, not only in Ghana but almost all economies around the world.

“We believe that where we stand now, an IMF intervention will help us come out quicker than we could. We hope that it will benefit the country,” he told TV3’s Komla Adom on the mid day news on Friday July 1.