As a layman in Psychology, I will try to analyze our Dear President, President Mahama in putting him on my SHRINK chair for psychoanalysis for his anomaly. Since I can't get him to my office for personal observation and indepth interview, I will do this by observation from afar.

In New York for the 70th UN General Assembly, President Mahama on Wednesday said the Pope's modesty left a "remarkable image" on him. What modesty was President Mahama talking about? Let readers who missed the news on Wednesday read what President Mahama said about the Pope.

"Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has told the world it can learn a "powerful lesson" from Pope Francis' simplicity when he opted to ride in a "tiny Fiat 500" on the streets of New York on his visit to the US.The Pontiff became the toast of the world after leaving the airplane in Maryland in a tiny Black Fiat to embark on a trip in the US. His simple lifestyle despite the office he holds has caught the attention of Mahama."

It is really good our President in his espial of the Pope is advising the World leaders to learn a powerful lesson from the Pope's modesty. The only problem here is that it is People like President Mahama and his African leaders friends who should learn a lesson of modesty from the Pope. This speech from President Mahama is hypocritical because he cannot preach virtue and practice vice.

This is the President that travels in at least a twenty car convoy with behemoth V8 petrol guzzling monsters on our roads telling the world to learn a lesson about modesty. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black or a typical behavior of a goody-goody two-shoes.

One reader by name Esi has this to say on the comment section;

"As a communications "expert" president Mahama's statements have at times left me baffled. This statement in particular makes little sense, because he himself doesn't practice what he preaches."

The problem with President Mahama is that, as a layman Psychologist, I have observed him to be a man who wants to be liked by everybody and as such, he says things he doesn't even believe in to impress his audience. Anybody who knows President Mahama can tell you he is a humble and a likeable man but has problem in telling the truth.

Another commentator on Ghanaweb by name Seth Ahiable wrote this;

"I can't believe what President Mahama said concerning the Pope's small Fiat car. Maybe, when he is in Ghana, his eyes see differently. Even his "nobodies, now made somebodies" deputy ministers and staff are driving in vehicles that cost 6 to 10 times as expensive as the Pope's Fiat car. So then, what level of hypocrisy is this President exhibiting? I deeply am shocked. Well, what car is he and his appointees going to use when he returns to Accra? maybe, bicycles."

President Mahama in his too-too mode forgot he has descended into a tommyrot with that speech that might have left some world leaders wondering if he did not consume some jorums of 'PITO' before giving that speech when he is known to ride in gass guzzling cars and flies around the world in his own Presidential plane to beg for money when leaders he solicits money from like the British Prime Minister flies commercial planes.

Is President Mahama telling us he has not read about President Buhari's modesty when he refused to ride in a Bentley or Roll Royce sent by the Nigeria Embassy in London to transport him from the Heathrow Airport because that is not the image he wants to portray to the world? What about President Buhari refusing a truckload of cows and goats presented to him by a businessman as a gift to celebrate the Moslem holiday?

This speech should have been delivered by Former President Jose Mujica of Uruguay who used to drive himself to Office everyday in an old Volkswagen to make it relevant. President Mahama who was once questioned about driving a Bentley denied ownership of the said vehicle and told Reporters the vehicle belongs to his half brother Ibrahim Mahama has no locus to preach about modesty to world leaders.

Is President Mahama aware some leaders in the Nordic countries(Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland) rides in train or bicycle to work everyday?

I couldn't have summed it better than what my friend Mr Mensah Abrampa wrote about President Mahama.


"The first person to show leadership in modesty is the first gentleman. Did he have to see Pope-Mobile, Pope Francis modest car, before he could understand and appreciate the importance of practicing modesty? Now that the profligacy and wastefulness of President Mahama's administration have been brought into sharp focus is he coming back home to do something very much unlike him and his appointees by changing their much bigger V8 vehicles for very modest cars or his speech was just for the records. If I were him I'd opt for one of Apostle Safo's locally made cars to encourage local entrepreneurship and the manufacturing industry."

The hypocrisy of President Mahama has been established with his "YENTIE OBIAA" attitude and this "nhwehwe animuu" speech has cemented his legacy as a President without strong belief in anything. He says things without conviction and if he wants to prove me wrong, then his penitent should begin when he return home and sell all the government V8 vehicles and government officials start driving around in "ABEN WO HA" Toyota Corollas.

Justice Sarpong

(CARDINAL of TRUTH)