Simple, Class One question Nana Addo couldn’t answer – Koku Anyidoho

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    Koku Anyidoho, Head of Communications at the presidenc
    Koku Anyidoho

    Head of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho is challenging New Patriotic Party flag-bearer for the 2012 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to be man enough and state what action he would have taken on the Ivorian election stalemate if he were president of Ghana.
    Koku wants Nana Addo to state whether as president, he would have ordered Ghanaian soldiers to war in Cote d’Ivoire, saying Nana failed to answer that simple question when he was asked Thursday morning.
    The NPP addressed a press conference Thursday, attended by a number of party functionaries and officials including the flag-bearer, at which the party accused the president of diplomatic double-talk for saying he supports ECOWAS’s decision to resort to force as a last measure to remove incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo should he refuse to relinquish power, and at the same time saying he did not believe war would bring a solution to the Ivorian crisis and that Ghana would not be able to contribute soldiers to any military intervention.
    But speaking on Asempa FM’s popular afternoon programme, Ekosii Sen, the Head of Communications at the Presidency said President Mills’ position has never been in doubt, expressing disappointment that Nana Addo who had been urging the President to declare his stance on the crisis failed to ‘be a man’ when he was offered the opportunity to state what path he would have chosen if he had the chance.
    “President Mills has continued to reiterate the point that he stands by the ECOWAS decision. It’s been in the papers, it’s been on the radio, unless Nana Akufo-Addo was not in the country or has not been reading the newspapers or listening to radio, precisely the point that president Mills has continued to make, and will continue to make…”
    According to Koku, the NPP’s press conference was one lacking a tail or head “much-ado-about-nothing”, for he had expected Nana Addo to be man enough. “What is Akufo-Addo’s position on the Ivorian crisis? It’s as simple as that”, said Koku, adding “He (Nana Addo) describes the question as infantile, we agree, that the question was asked by infants , he should please answer the questions that the infants have asked, we just want to know” if he would send soldiers to war.
    Describing the question as a “class one question”, he said the NPP and Nana Addo should stop dancing around it and proffer a straight answer.
    “Nana Akufo-Addo let us know your position. It’s as simple as that, I won’t grow from that question. I will still be an infant on that question, hundred years I’ll still be an infant on that question, but he is the one who is older, he is matured. And I say please Mr. Matured Man, please you just answer my infantile question for me – would you allow our soldiers to go to war in Cote d’Ivoire and go and forcibly remove Gbagbo and in the process kill scores of Ghanaian soldiers, on a daily basis body bags would be coming to Burma Camp, Arakan Barracks …, is that what you would do so that women would line up and be crying over the dead bodies of their husbands, and children would become fatherless? Mr Akufo-Addo, please answer this infantile question…”
    Nana Addo’s spokesperson on the Ivorian Crisis, John Boadu, retorted that Ghana’s ambivalent stance in the matter has showed the nation as unlikely to be reliable and that since President Mills made that position of disapproving of a military intervention while subscribing to the ECOWAS’ military intervention decision, Ghana has not been regular at ECOWAS military chiefs’ meetings.
    He said it would have been a better position if President Mills had simply told journalists at the January 7 media encounter that he indeed was party to the ECOWAS communiqué but he intended to consult with his military chiefs if the need to apply force on Gbagbo arose.
    Listen to John Boadu
    According to John Boadu, Ghana has been part of several international military intervention efforts and the current call should not be reduced to a propaganda piece.
    Story by Isaac Yeboah

    Head of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho is challenging New Patriotic Party flag-bearer for the 2012 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to be man enough and state what action he would have taken on the Ivorian election stalemate if he were president of Ghana.
    Koku wants Nana Addo to state whether as president, he would have ordered Ghanaian soldiers to war in Cote d’Ivoire, saying Nana failed to answer that simple question when he was asked Thursday morning.
    The NPP addressed a press conference Thursday, attended by a number of party functionaries and officials including the flag-bearer, at which the party accused the president of diplomatic double-talk for saying he supports ECOWAS’s decision to resort to force as a last measure to remove incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo should he refuse to relinquish power, and at the same time saying he did not believe war would bring a solution to the Ivorian crisis and that Ghana would not be able to contribute soldiers to any military intervention.
    But speaking on Asempa FM’s popular afternoon programme, Ekosii Sen, the Head of Communications at the Presidency said President Mills’ position has never been in doubt, expressing disappointment that Nana Addo who had been urging the President to declare his stance on the crisis failed to ‘be a man’ when he was offered the opportunity to state what path he would have chosen if he had the chance.
    “President Mills has continued to reiterate the point that he stands by the ECOWAS decision. It’s been in the papers, it’s been on the radio, unless Nana Akufo-Addo was not in the country or has not been reading the newspapers or listening to radio, precisely the point that president Mills has continued to make, and will continue to make…”
    According to Koku, the NPP’s press conference was one lacking a tail or head “much-ado-about-nothing”, for he had expected Nana Addo to be man enough. “What is Akufo-Addo’s position on the Ivorian crisis? It’s as simple as that”, said Koku, adding “He (Nana Addo) describes the question as infantile, we agree, that the question was asked by infants , he should please answer the questions that the infants have asked, we just want to know” if he would send soldiers to war.
    Describing the question as a “class one question”, he said the NPP and Nana Addo should stop dancing around it and proffer a straight answer.
    “Nana Akufo-Addo let us know your position. It’s as simple as that, I won’t grow from that question. I will still be an infant on that question, hundred years I’ll still be an infant on that question, but he is the one who is older, he is matured. And I say please Mr. Matured Man, please you just answer my infantile question for me – would you allow our soldiers to go to war in Cote d’Ivoire and go and forcibly remove Gbagbo and in the process kill scores of Ghanaian soldiers, on a daily basis body bags would be coming to Burma Camp, Arakan Barracks …, is that what you would do so that women would line up and be crying over the dead bodies of their husbands, and children would become fatherless? Mr Akufo-Addo, please answer this infantile question…”
    Nana Addo’s spokesperson on the Ivorian Crisis, John Boadu, retorted that Ghana’s ambivalent stance in the matter has showed the nation as unlikely to be reliable and that since President Mills made that position of disapproving of a military intervention while subscribing to the ECOWAS’ military intervention decision, Ghana has not been regular at ECOWAS military chiefs’ meetings.
    He said it would have been a better position if President Mills had simply told journalists at the January 7 media encounter that he indeed was party to the ECOWAS communiqué but he intended to consult with his military chiefs if the need to apply force on Gbagbo arose.Listen to John Boadu
    According to John Boadu, Ghana has been part of several international military intervention efforts and the current call should not be reduced to a propaganda piece.
    Story by Isaac Yeboah