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Former Chief Executive of Asante Kotoko Football club and a close associate of the Rawlingses, Mr. Herbert Mensah says President Mills lacks greater dynamism in managing the affairs of the nation stressing that �holding a Bible is not enough to be a president of Ghana�. With less than 48 hours to go for the historic congress of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital of Sunyani, the business mogul expressed worry that some people in government including the Vice President are using state apparatus and sharing money in what they call �mopping up� and felt some of these stances and positions will come back to haunt the NDC in the general elections. To him, the �enemy� and main threat everyone should be worried about is the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and not the former first lady as it is being peddled around by some NDC members. A strong advocate of the former First Lady, Mr Herbert Mensah sought to disapprove assertions that she (Konadu) is not marketable, pointing out that he (Herbert) �had difficulties in marketing Mills when he was running matters of campaign issues for him.� �President Mills is not a unmarketable commodity but he is president,� he added In an apparent jab at President Mills, the former Country Manager of MNET West Africa pointed out that �holding a Bible is not enough to be a president of Ghana�You need to have greater dynamism.� He opined that it was quite unfortunate for an incumbent president to be internally challenged, due to what he described as �weak leadership skills� and added that he believes Nana Konadu is �theoretically� contesting President Mills because a vacuum has been created in the NDC. �By the time you go into elections next year, you came to the elections standing behind what President Rawlings had been talking about which is the same thing that he is saying today. You have not lived it and now you�re rejecting it. In 12 months� time, 18 months� time, what are you going to the electorate and tell the electorate? Are you going to say that in 2008 you were confused? Are you going to say that you misunderstood? Are you going to say that you actually believed that the way of the NPP was the right way? What message are you going to tell them; because you must stand for something! Now, if you don�t stand for the issues of accountability and probity, if you don�t stand for the issues of the auditing of public officials�what do you stand for?...I find it completely and utterly amazing, that�I�ve no longer clarity about what the presidency stands for,� he said.