Wherefore doth thy spirit runneth with fear, Mr. President?

Nay, for, verily, I possess not the prowess of Shakespeare, but the urgency hath made me a contemporary one. So, therefore, Sire, I beseech you to soothe my soul, "wherefore doth thy spirit runneth with fear?"

Of recent memory comes to mind a challenge that Mr. President, John Dramani Mahama, threw at Hon Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo. "I am ready to debate him anytime, anywhere," he stuck his chest out decorating his feisty challenge with quite some bombastic language as to seem that he was flamboyantly literate. Of course that was another comic relief, more like throwing dust in the eyes of the citizenry. "Even, I could do so if he (Nana Akufo-Addo) would make himself available right now," he added. However, almost as soon as he finished throwing the challenge, and as NDC people's heads began to swell in awe, he added a quick hitch as to say that he had no control over debates because his Party, the NDC, had the final say in such programmes. Then the swollen heads deflated like incinerated balloons flatulating flaccidly as they swirled in their limpness to the floor.

Mr President's demeanour has never ceased to amaze Ghanaians. His submissions are characteristically surreal. He seems to be the scared contender who has to talk big and run for cover lest the giant, Nana Akufo-Addo, tramples all over him in the course of accepting his challenges.

The IEA debate, was lauded by the NDC, in 2012, as a level field where all political parties with parliamentary representation could face off, as it were, before the fight. In fact, the last one characterised many travesties brought about by the ineptitude of the NDC and the choreographed machinations of the miscreant Hassan Ayariga of the PNC Party, when he coughed incessantly each time Nana spoke. Hence the term, "Ayaricough", a blend between his name and the cough that was an exposé of his unbefitting status as a human being.

At that time, it seemed that John Dramani Mahama was given the questions ahead of time in suspected connivance with the IEA, a member of which panel was given a ministerial appointment shortly after the perceived theft of the people's mandate and the subsequent, stolen verdict at the Supreme Court, as majority of Ghanaians believe.

Today, contrary to the acolades that John Mahama and his NDC Party showered on the IEA, this body of democratic dispensation is being vilified, apparently, for not leaking the questions to the President in order to write, chew and pour the answers to look good before the formidable lawyer, Nana Akufo-Addo, especially after his goof during the UK anti-corruption summit that sunk his image further when he was asked by a BBC journalist whether he had taken a bribe. That was when Mr. President, John Mahama, fumbled and asked, "you mean as a president or as a human being; or as a........?"

And so it has come to pass that whenever Nana and his able vice, Dr. Mahmoudu Bawumia, speak to issues and corroborate their submissions with cogent facts, the NDC freaks run for cover as they try to contain the shivers that electrocute their spines like a bolt from an electric gun.

John Mahama, of course has not the guts to face wise and sensible people at the IEA. Mr President's worst nightmare is Nana Akufo-Addo. He is so diminished by the might of this wise man that he haplessly avoids crossing his path, unless an event inadvertently brings them together, where he cuts his attendance short.

The NDC forever seeks to cover up their shame. On this particular disgraceful show of timidity, the advisers of John Mahama are encouraging him to insult and dishonour Ghanaians by opting out instead of giving him some morale-boosting sessions to counter the sabotaging effects of shying away from the IEA debate.

It is not funny anymore! John Mahama has performed abysmally with the most inept and utterly disgraceful administration this country has ever had to put up with. And the corruption is nauseatingly unprecedented, too. What a shame!!!

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