Four out of seven contesting candidates will be taking part in this year’s presidential debate by the Institute of Economic Affairs. The IEA has this year struggled to get the full complement of presidential aspirants for its presidential debate series organized every election year.
The four candidates taking part in this year’s debate are; Ivor Kobina Greenstreet(CPP), Dr. Edward Nasigre Mahama(PNC), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom(PPP) and Jacob Osei Yeboah, an independent candidate.
The IEA had earlier stated all was set to hold the debate that many expected to feature the two leading candidates in the 2016 presidential race.
Unfortunately, the governing National Democratic Congress’ John Dramani Mahama and the New Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo are not
Former first lady and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is also not taking part in the debate.
Dubbed IEA Presidential Townhall 2016, this year’s event is to focus on issues regarding the economy and private sector development. The event comes off at the Kempinski hotel at 6.30pm on Tuesday, November 22,2016.
"The IEA had earlier stated all was set to hold the debate that many expected to feature the two leading candidates in the 2016 presidential race."
Source: ghanaweb
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If Nana and Mahama are not debating then the debate would be meaningful, because they would have come to lie to us.
As a floating voter, I was expecting John Mahama and Nana Addo to take part in this debate to enable me make a decision as to who to vote for, but since these two so called big parties do not have any respect for us the voters, I will just waste my vote by voting for one of these four candidates who have showed some respect to Ghanaians. With this blatant show of disrespect to us, I now understand why they say one thing during campaign time and never do it when they are in power. They know whether they debate or not there ediots in Ghana who would still vote for them. This is sad.
Good they've boycotted. We'll be watching champions league which is far better than the acrimonious politics.