Now that he appears to have regained a bit of his sanity and has stopped dreaming and hallucinating about the ghost of President John Evans Atta-Mills, the Deputy General-Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been desperately attempting to deflect negative attention from the failed government of President John Dramani Mahama to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (See “ ‘Nana Addo Is a Bad Choice and Disorganized’ – Anyidoho” RainbowRadio.co.uk 10/13/15). Mr. Koku Anyidoho, the former Communications Director for President Mills, has yet to tell the nation precisely what caused the death of his former boss. The late president’s twin brother, Dr. Cadman Mills, recently suggested that the Mills clan suspected foul play in the death of their most distinguished member.
The Akan have a dictum that “When Mr. Naked Promises You a Bolt of Cloth, Just Listen to His Name.” Isn’t it rather strange and silly that the man cannot, to-date, account for the final moments leading up to the death of President Mills, and yet he has the temerity to insult the intelligence of half of the population of Ghanaian voters by telling them that both the delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the nation’s largest political organization, and the former made a grievous mistake in selecting Nana Akufo-Addo as their prime leadership choice. Of course, thanks to the genius and yeomanly forensic electoral sleuthing by Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia and his team of biometric voters’ register experts, we now know that it was principally Togolese nationals that put President Mahama into the Flagstaff House, and not the Ghanaian electorate.
Mr. Anyidoho also wants Ghanaians to believe that when Mr. S. K. Boafo, the former Asante Regional Minister under the tenure of President Kufuor, quipped that the support for the NPP in the party’s metropolitan stronghold of Kumasi had dwindled significantly, that Mr. Boafo was unmistakably alluding to the leadership incapacity of the three-time flagbearer of the most democratic political establishment. And so the logically obvious question becomes: Precisely why does Mr. Anyidoho believe that the overwhelming majority of the key NPP operatives would on three separate occasions elect Nana Akufo-Addo as their flagbearer? Mr. Anyidoho also ought to rest assured that Ghanaians have not forgotten that moment when he boorishly referred to President Kufuor as a very ugly man the look of whose face made him want to throw up.
And so why would Mr. Anyidoho wish that President Kufuor had accompanied Nana Akufo-Addo on the latter’s recent nationwide “Arise and Build” tour? Is it so that Mr. Anyidoho could, once again, have used the occasion to personally attack the former president? And also, just why would Mr. Anyidoho have had Mr. Kwadwo Mpiani accompany Nana Akufo-Addo on his tour? It is quite obvious that it is rather Mr. Anyodoho who is desperately seeking to divide the topmost ranking members of the New Patriotic Party, and not the 2016 flagbearer of the same party. After all, who has forgotten the time that Mr. Mpiani deliberately and publicly chose the NDC leadership over Nana Akufo-Addo for the National Merit Honors Awards in 2008? We haven’t also forgotten the crafty, if also tawdry, communistic tactics used by the likes of Messrs. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia and Anyidoho to preempt any formidable party operatives from challenging President Mahama for the flagbearership of the National Democratic Congress in the lead-up to Election 2016? Who has so soon forgotten the name of Mr. George Boateng, the freight-forwarder who was recently expelled from the NDC for daring to challenge President Mahama for the 2016 flagbearership of the party?
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