Gone are the days when the best player in a soccer team was the one who could kick the ball higher up into the sky to generate the applause of women spectators whiles the ball goes no further than the spot from where it was kicked. In those days women played Net ball not football so they knew nothing about the pattern and quality of play and couldn’t be blamed for clapping and applauding for a no job done player. Today, women play football as men do and couldn’t be any more high-rising balls enthusiasts and applauders. Today people of all walks of life are wide awake to political events and can no longer be fooled.
It is in the days of hesternal antiquity that people hailed gibberish political ranting that sought to achieve no purpose but only to make noise and please ignorant sycophantic audience. In modern politics, many are those who can discern and differentiate between quality leadership from words and deeds irrespective of any academic training. From his approach to his governance, Mills either looks down on Ghanaians as not yet woken up to smell coffee in this 21st century politics or he himself is simply behind time for modern day political leadership.
From the stock of his cabinet and party functionaries, recognition is always bestowed on people who can best rain insults on opponents and make vain, meaningless amphigory to further the course of a regime that is stuck in fantasy with tawdry nine days wonder projects. Politicians as leaders are expected to be Solomonic in their speeches and utterances that have far reaching consequences. This is why the rhetoric’s of Cicero, Solon, Lincoln, Washington, Churchill and many more have become so celebrated that they will continue to live on the memory of all generations to come.
? If Mills gives his approbation to Dr. Kwabena Adjei’s ‘many ways of killing the cat’ yapping because that receives the applause of ignorant sycophants of NDC, then where’re we heading towards as a nation?
? If Mills pockets the powers of Ghana police and gives them executive control from the Castle for the applause of his party members, then what’s the difference between Mills and Rawlings?
? if Mills casts a blind eye to the threats of mayhem onto his own appointees by his ‘mad dogs’ only to be hailed by his yahoo followers, then who should be worried about the Ashanti Regional Minster when they chased him?
? if Mills couldn’t fathom anything wrong with STX Korea deal as he endorses borrowing and squandering regime to the yea applause of his party supporters, knowing that it will have a serious repercussions on the people of Ghana, then one cannot forget his abysmal role as the Chairman of the Economic Management Team under his boss Rawlings’s era, thanks to the opposition NPP for their good work done.
? if Mills can max out Ghana’s credit potentials with external organisations by borrowing US$28.5 billion in 638 days (less than two years) in office on just a few non self-sustainable projects just for the applause of yea, yea from the ignorant, the dishonest and the evil may occur myopic few sycophants, then we have a serious problem.
Instead of tackling national issues with seriousness, the NDC under Mills has degenerated political business into fescennine verses just to arouse clapping by supporters
Atta Mills is taking Ghanaians for a ride with his leadership policies and policy executions that generates attention for himself but not in the interest of majority of Ghanaians with just a few enumerated as above, therefore a fortiori it can be concluded that like the untrained high rising football kicking player in a soccer tournament, Mills is only interested in good for nothing applauses by the few against the interest the majority for a greater good of all.
The chooboi-yeei era of politics of antiquity has ceded to a modern day era of scientific analytical political responsibility for all actions and inactions of our political leaders, yet Mills is behind time. Oh Ghana, what a Useless and Hopeless President!

A.K. Abrefa Damoa & P. Antwi (London – UK)