In an address at one of the rallies of the New Patriotic Party in October 2016, Dr Bawumia catalogued a number of things in the country which he considered to be hardship imposed by the then Mahama government. Dr Bawumia is Vice President and the song he sang in 2016 is being played to him now. “Currently, teachers are suffering and student are suffering, Doctors are suffering and Nurses are suffering. Farmers are suffering and drivers are suffering, Market women are suffering and Ghanaians are suffering.”The NDC reiterated his position against the Electronic Transaction levy and appealed to the government to withdraw it. “Yet again, we are aware that you plan to impose on Ghanaians another set of draconian taxes in the next couple of weeks.