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The Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has questioned the motives of Lawyer Abraham Amaliba for stating that he would be satisfied to die just after hearing the Counsel for the third respondent, Tsatsu Tsikata, cross examine Dr. Mahamudu Bwumia, second petitioner, in the on-going Supreme Court challenge of the 2012 elections results. The NPP communicator could not believe the young legal practitioner could make such a statement given the time spent in school to study law and the fact that he might have invested heavily in his education to get him where he is now. ��.I ask myself, how can a lawyer in whose education much investment has been made say this? For all you know, he might have been taken through school with proceeds from cocoa farming�as I sit here, I have sold ice water, bananas, sold charcoal, I have sold dough-nuts. I used to fry them myself and take it round to sell. My mother, a nurse was able to take care of me through school. �And after going for loans and going through other means to take me through school and this is the time to work hard and take care of her at her old age, how I can say that� Then, I ask, what did you come into the world to do? John Boadu, the former National Youth Organizer of the NPP made these comments after Abraham Amaliba has showered praises on Tsatsu Tsikata, declaring that his soul would be satisfied if after listening to the legal luminary, God calls him into eternal glory. �What excites me most is that whenever Tsatsu makes an attempt to talk in court, the sound of a pin can be clearly heard should someone drops it. �Even his haters know he is intelligent and it is a foregone conclusion everyone is waiting for him to conduct his cross-examination. �I was interacting with a colleague of mine and I made it known to him that should I die after I have listened to Tsatsu, I would be glad,� he said. John Boadu however, finds this statement distasteful in the view of the fact that all hands are needed in the development of this country and according to him, is wrong for anyone to mortgage his life to another�s, much less a cross examination in court.