{"id":177450,"date":"2024-07-28T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minority-mocks-bawumias-debate-bid-drivers-mate-not-fit-for-mahama\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T12:54:42","slug":"ghana-minority-mocks-bawumias-debate-bid-drivers-mate-not-fit-for-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minority-mocks-bawumias-debate-bid-drivers-mate-not-fit-for-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Minority Mocks Bawumia&#8217;s Debate Bid &#8211; &#8216;Driver&#8217;s Mate&#8217; Not Fit for Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>The Minority in Parliament has rejected a proposal for a presidential debate between Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and John Mahama, with Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson dismissing Bawumia as a &#8220;driver&#8217;s mate&#8221; unqualified to debate an experienced driver like Mahama.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Minority in Parliament has expressed opposition to the Majority&#8217;s suggestion that the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, and the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, engage in a debate before the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407250116.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has rejected a proposal for a presidential debate between Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and John Mahama, with Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson dismissing Bawumia as a &#8220;driver&#8217;s mate&#8221; unqualified to debate an experienced driver like Mahama. The Minority in Parliament has expressed opposition to the Majority&#8217;s suggestion that the flagbearer of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,45812,10798,9086,11628,14751,4508,4509,7780,9753,12287,7941,257,254],"class_list":["post-177450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bawumias","tag-bid","tag-debate","tag-drivers","tag-fit","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-mate","tag-minority","tag-mocks","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}