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Former General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie popularly known as Sir John has advised President Mahama to refrain from straying into the comment space of party communicators and serial callers. 

The NDC communicators, described as 'babies with sharp teeth' by some political commentators, would be pardoned when they make certain unfortunate remarks but not the President who is expected to know better, Sir John insists.

President Mahama at an NDC rally at the Trade Fair site in Accra claimed that former Presidents John Rawlings and John Kufuor are the only persons qualifed to criticise him as they have previously occupied the high office of President of Ghana.

“All of you guys have never ever come near the Presidency before. You know what it means to be President? And you stand and say ‘incompetent Mahama administration’, 'Incompetent Mahama administration'. What do you know about competence..?" President Mahama quized.

But Sir John reacting to the statement on Adom FM's Morning Show, 'Dwaso Nsem' on Tuesday called on President Mahama to desist from attacking the opposition because his choice of words are below the standard of a President.

“What crime has Dr Bawumia committed if he tells you (Mahama) that you are incompetent and that you cannot run the affairs of the country competently? Why is Mahama crying over this issue?

“In fact, if you cannot handle these criticisms, please allow the babies with sharp teeth in your party to talk and desist from making unsavory comments and don’t descend in the same gutters with them."

Sir John indicated that Ghanaians deserve better from the Mahama government and not insults from the man they queued in the sun to elect.

"The energy crisis is an example that this government is indeed incompetent. Businesses are collapsing and if we complain, all you (Mahama) can say as a president is that we have not been president before. I think President Mahama really needs prayers” he asserted.