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    "content": "Within that context, the Deputy President is the principal assistant and shall deputise the President in the execution of the President’s functions. That means that if the President is unavailable, the Deputy President shall deputise him in the execution of his functions. This creates a situation where there is avoidance of unnecessary, unhelpful and unproductive competition between a President and his deputy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the most illustrative point on this can be picked from Ghana where the former President, Jerry Rawlings, had Mr. John Atta Mills as his deputy. Mr. Atta Mills eventually became President after him and died in office. Their Constitution is worded, word for word, as our Chapter on the Executive. At one point where President Rawlings could not agree with his deputy or vice versa and he knew that the Constitution could not sack him, President Rawlings resorted to the unthinkable. Twice, he boxed his deputy in Cabinet meetings to demonstrate his displeasure in his own deputy disagreeing with him and his frustration in being unable to sack or sanction him. President Rawlings was huge and Mr. Mills was small and you can imagine the weight of the box on the diminutive Mr. Atta Mills. It was news all over the world with Mr. Atta Mills on the floor of a Cabinet room and President Rawlings towering over him. It only explains that when you want to choose your running mate either in an arrangement between parties or clans like it happens in northern Kenya or in whatever manner that you want to conceive, you must choose very carefully. Your running mate must be compatible with you in many respects. You may not be uniform in every respect or think at the same level all the time because human beings do not do that. However, you must have a running mate who, eventually, when he becomes your deputy, will not cause a rumpus around you all the time and with whom you will pursue and execute your manifesto and agenda. Short of that, the law will not come to superintend on your relationship. Let me say this to the many Senators who are striving to be governors and there is one sitting in front of me. You must be given - this is a very dangerous law if we pass it---."
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