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Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mike Oquaye Jnr. has described President John Dramani Mahama as a "dictator" over BNI's arrest of Fadi Dabbousi, a Ghanaian-Lebanese pilot.

Fadi Dabbousi, a fierce critic of the Mahama-led NDC administration was picked up by the BNI when he touched down in Ghana from Lebanon on Friday, September 23, 2016 and detained beyond the statutory 48 hours.

He was arrested for alleged offensive conduct against President John Mahama.

Latest news indicate the Ghanaian-born Lebanese author was detained for making defamatory claims about the President.

In his latest articles, Fadi Dabbousi alleged that the President has HIV/AIDS. He also suggested, the President had impregnated the daughter of the Ashanti King, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.

Fadi insists his claims originated from the print media.

Hassan Tampuli, lawyer for Fadi Daboussie, says his client told officials of the Bureau of National nvestigations he only repeated the comments complained about after first reading them in two newspapers affiliated to the governing National Democratic Congress.

The legal practitioner said he would have expected that once Fadi had been arrested by the BNI, the editors of Al-hajj and The Catalyst newspapers ought to have been queried by the security agency.

The security apparatus had taken note of his highly critical and incendiary political commentary against President John Mahama and his government.

Commenting on the arrest, Mike Oquaye Jnr. lambasted the BNI for apparently doing the bidding of the government.

According to him, the BNI appears to be sacrosanct and violating the rule of law which to him, does not augur well for the agency and the government as well.

Mike Oquaye Jnr. made reference to some 'bulldozer actions' which was meted out to some South Africans employed by the opposition NPP to train their members on security issues and pinned them on the Mahama administration, stressing that President Mahama is "intolerant".

To him, people who owe no allegiance to the NDC are tormented by the BNI and such behaviour should not be encouraged in the country.

The NPP Deputy Communications Director further questioned the logic in detaining Fadi Dabbousi.

“This kind of behaviour is not going to wash…Anybody who detains somebody against the rule of the constitution of 1992 is a dictator. And that is what you’re doing. You’re showing intolerance. You’re showing that you can do what you like.”

Without mincing words, Mike Oquaye Jnr. stressed on PeaceFM's "Kokrokoo" that President John Mahama is “practicing dictatorship".

"That your BNI can arrest South Africans and the court orders for them to be discharged, and then you don’t respect the court and you still arrest them and nobody has been sacked in BNI? Is this not dictatorship? Can you imagine? Can you do this anywhere in this world?”

"We will talk and talk, and talk and talk. Come and catch all of us," he concluded.