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A member of the People�s National Convention (PNC) and Policy Analyst, Atik Mohammed says President John Dramani Mahama should psych himself up as the country awaits the verdict by the nine-member panel sitting on the Presidential election petition before the Supreme Court. Speaking on Oman FM�s political analysis programme, �National Agenda�, he advised the President to prepare his mind in order to accept the outcome of the election case. President Mahama is reported by JoyFM to have asked Ghanaians to prepare their minds to accept any verdict the Supreme Court will pronounce in the ongoing election petition hearing. The Petition is challenging the legitimacy of his presidency after the Electoral Commission declared him winner of the 2012 presidential polls. The hearing of evidence ended on 17th July this year. The country now awaits a verdict. Interacting with journalists at the Presidency on the one year celebration of the late president Professor Mills, he reminded Ghanaians that the country is bigger than everybody else. In view of the high stakes afforded by the Election Petition, President Mahama suggested that Professor Mills' �message of peace is even relevant now than ever before�. President Mills died at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra on July 24 last year, three days after marking his 68th birthday. In the week-long commemoration of his death, president Mahama speculated that �probably God made it such that the first anniversary of Prof�s death is coinciding with virtually the final stages with the legal tussle�. But the PNC Activist wants President Mahama to be the first �to prepare his mind because he was not willing to declare how he�s going to accept the outcome. So, if there�s anybody to prepare his mind, then it�s him.� He believed this is the surest way for the nation to come to terms with the court verdict. He also appealed to Ghanaians to offer prayers �for the judges so that they will deliver that which is required of them to do�And let�s also try to resist the temptation of taking to violence�So, let�s pray that there will be justice delivered.�