In response to the nation's economic woes, former president John Dramani Mahama suggested that president Nana Akufo-Addo dissolve the Economic Management Team (EMT) and establish a new one with the president as the head. An economist, Daniel Yaw Mordey, has come out against this plan.

The former president recommended that the president dissolve the EMT led by Vice-President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and establish a new one to better manage the economy while delivering a talk at the University of Professional Studies in Accra on the topic of "Building the Ghana We Want."

Reacting to this suggestion by the former president on Accra 100.5 FM’s mid-day news on Friday, October 28 2022, Mr Mordey said the president cannot chair the EMT, stemming from his little understanding of economics.

According to him, the EMT cannot be chaired by a holder of third-class results in economics.

He said from a look at the economic challenges the country is facing, the EMT needs to be chaired by an individual who attained a first class in economics.

That person, he mentioned, must be economically savvy.

He mentioned Dr Osei Akoto, a former Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance during former President John Agyekum Kufour's time, as one of such individuals.

As it stands, we know the president at the university had a third-class result in economics and given the situation Ghana is currently in, the EMT cannot be chaired by a third-class economics student, he argued