Joyce Banda confirms her mediocrity

President Joyce Banda continues to abuse her right to show she is on the mediocre side of things, despite the many opportunities presented to her, even waved in her face, to redeem herself.

Ever heard of a whole president of a country boasting about a photo opportunity she took with a president of another country?

That president is one Joyce Banda, and she boasts about a photo call that she had with President Barack Obama of the United States of America.

She talks about this photo call everyday these days as if those photo calls are exclusive. During her rallies she mentions her photograph flanked by the Obamas in her excitement which can only suggest the President of Malawi just cannot believe she is the president of Malawi, by which reason she had the opportunity for posing with the President of the United States.

And by the way, this photocall did not take place at the White House. These are photo calls that willing presidents have with whoever president they desire to pose with while relaxing during the General Assembly meetings at the United Nations.

To pose for such kind of photos one does not even need to have a meeting with the one he or she is posing with. You can just bump into your person and ask him if he is willing to pose for a photo. And if he or she is willing, that’s it.

This is the reason photos of the kind that President Joyce Banda boasts about are all over the internet showing different presidents of different countries posing with the Obamas in the same spot that Joyce Banda had her photo with them taken.

Bingu wa Mutharika too had a similar photo with the Obamas but he obviously did not find it as a significant matter to give him a sense of worth to talk about. This is the reason he never talked about it. It was just one of those things to him.

But because Joyce Banda has gaps in her sense of worth, she thinks a picture with the Obamas would help bridge those gaps. Talk about mediocrity, and this is the best example.

All this issue of Joyce Banda talking about her photo with Obama has been triggered by a suggestion that DPP acting President Peter Mutharika would meet President Obama during his visit of the United States.

Pained by that suggestion because she, herself, has never officially met Obama, apart from the run ins at the United Nations, one of which ended in the photo that is being advertised during her political meetings, she thinks she can outshine the painful suggested prospect of Peter Mutharika meeting Obama with her photo with Obama at the UN.

The president is so gullible she thinks she will gain the approvals of the people by boasting to them about her photographs with other leaders.

And when the envoys of the United States hear Joyce Banda boasting about posing with Obama, what do they think about the measure of worthness about her?

President Joyce Banda must start to realise that she is a president of a country and therefore must not bilittle the worthiness of her office by waxing lyrical about photo opportunities with presidents of other countries.

It does not add any substance or value to her. Boasting about photo calls with dream people is not presidential. It is primary school manners.