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Barring any last minute hitches two brash-talking gentlemen will cross swords for the title of perhaps the most braggadocious Ghanaian political figure ever. Business mogul and NPP Member of Parliament for Assin Fosu, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong and Director of Communications for the NDC in the Central Region, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, have dared each other in a show of mannish power. The combatants, who have in the past captured the airwaves with their �antics�, are really fired up vowing to �silence� each other for good. The �feud� begun when Allotey Jacobs, emphatically called for the expulsion of Hon. Kennedy Agyapong from parliament. The Assin North MP had warned that the country could return to military rule if politicians, especially those in the ruling NDC and the opposition NPP, do not stop deceiving the masses. �If we are not too careful, there will be a second Rawlings in this country because what we, the politicians, tell the people before we come to power is different from what we do when we get the opportunity to govern the people,� Ken Agyapong is quoted by the �Al-Hajj� newspaper to have told some 29 youth he sponsored to acquire computer education. Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings in 1979 overthrew the administration of General Acheampong and repeated the same action in 1981 by overthrowing the late Dr Hilla Limann�s government, with the explanation that the political atmosphere at the time of the coup was not conducive for the ordinary Ghanaian. Perhaps, it was based on this that the outspoken NPP MP posited that Ghanaians might embark on a mutiny against unbridled corruption and deceptions by politicians. But contributing to a panel discussion on AdomFM�s Dwaso Nsem show, the NDC�s Central Regional Communications Director felt that the Assin North MP was inciting the youth to war and opined that Parliament should be bold enough to expel MPs who pass comments like �another coup d��tat is imminent� and �a second Rawlings in the making�. �When an MP says such a thing, he should be sacked from parliament and in parliament, he should face the Privileges Committee, he should be sanctioned as an honorable MP. It is most unfortunate that we have an MP, an honorable Member of Parliament, calling for a coup d��tat�As a Member of Parliament who has sworn to defend the Constitution, such irresponsible statements should not come from him; for a Parliamentarian to say such a thing, he should be sacked from Parliament,� he said.