All presidents have individual characteristics, and these features differentiate them from each other.
Each of them comes to power through the presentation of convincing and superior visions about making life more comfortable than the prevailing one.
While some present achievable promises, others depend on outright lies as they play upon the vulnerability of the people to win the electoral contest.
President John Mahama is reported to have said that in politics, a blend of lies and truths is a standard means of winning power. His bluntness enhanced the position held by some that politicians lack sincerity. This singular bombshell has continuously reverberated in political conversations in determining his true worth. He has been regarded by observers as a person who has earned politics a bad name; blending truth with lies.
That is not the way of all politicians; the occupation is credited with many whose legacies have dictated the path of national progress.
Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed, now Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso East Constituency, also said that in politics it is acceptable to call a sheep a cow to enhance their chances.
Other politicians, however, think differently about politics, which for them is about service to the people sincerely and bereft of chicanery.
As we compose this leader, the wind of the Yuletide is blowing although hardly noticed because of the poor sales being recorded by traders; the Finance Minister says there is no evidence to prove this.
The job creation which the Mahama government promised Ghanaians is yet to be witnessed. He once stated that because there are no jobs, it would be better to allow illegal mining to go on so the proceeds will remain at home and those engaged in it having a source of income; a post electoral victory remark.
We are compelled to stretch the logic of allowing illegalities if they would provide sources of income to the jobless to the current demolishing of structures in some parts of the nation’s capital.
Women and even men who have turned bus stops into selling spots are being evicted from these locations in furtherance of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s ‘letting the traffic flow project.’
But if that allows the jobless to get something to do to earn a living according to President John Mahama’s logic, why are they being evicted?
Ghanaians should determine the quality of their politicians by what they say while in opposition and what they do with the power when they manage to convince them to vote for them.
Today, this government is talking about searching for scandals by journalists as though it is something new in our body-politics.
At the time now Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa jetted out of Ghana to fish for possible scandals about the National Cathedral project when there were none of course, it was alright because it served the interest of the regime change agenda.
Today, when in government, it is mischievous to search and find scandals in the South African evacuation of Ghanaians, including the sale of diplomatic passports and journalists who embark on the assignments described as adversarial.
The President has altered his opposition days thinking cap for a new one, and this has changed his perspective of things.