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A deputy Director of Communications of the Governing New Patriotic Party Ernest Owusu Bempah has accused former President John Mahama of peddling falsehoods about the economy.

Mr Bempah says Former President John Dramani Mahama has been exposed as he admits to a global economic meltdown that has swept across many parts of the world including Africa.

In a recent trip to Washington DC, the former president, in an exclusive interview with Hayde Adams on his popular Straight Talk Africa on VOA News, admitted that indeed the global economy is in a recession.

“I think that it’s a period of adversity for the whole world because it’s triggering a kind of global recession” the former president admitted.

The failed presidential candidate of the opposition NDC in the 2020 elections has been on record to have accused the Akufo-Addo administration of mismanaging the economy, hence its challenges.

On more occasions than one could recall, Mr Mahama has rejected the arguments by government functionaries to the effect that the twin catastrophic events of COVID-19 and the Russian/Ukrainian crisis cannot be blamed for the economic challenges facing Ghanaians.

Mr Mahama in his interview admits to the reality that COVID-19 and the raging war between Russia and Ukraine have triggered a global recession, contrary to his constant insistence in Ghana that such claims are bogus.

Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah, reacting to the news about the latest twist to Mr. Mahama’s constant refrain, emphasized that the former president, “John Mahama, has been exposed big time. He blames President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Bawumia for the challenges we are going through but goes out there to speak the truth”.

“Clearly, as we have always emphasized and even the IMF Boss recently reiterated, our challenges are not home-brewed but largely due to COVID-19 and the Russia/Ukraine war, a fact John Mahama has been rejecting all this while. His interview with the VOA is a testament to the fact that indeed the challenges we are facing are attributable to the deadly coronavirus pandemic and the never-ending Russian/Ukrainian conflict” Mr Owusu-Bempah said.