Mills’ Tour Purely For Business Not Campaign – Koku Anyidoho

Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho has chided critics accusing President John Mills of embarking on a political campaign under the guise of a national tour.

President John Mills began a nationwide tour last week to assess his performance over the past two years. He already had been in the Upper West, Upper East and the Brong Ahafo Regions. He would be touring the Ashanti Region beginning today where he will inspect ongoing projects and commission finished ones, however, some people have construed the President’s visits as a campaign tour to aide his contest for the flagbearership a second time.

This Koku Anyidoho has discounted. He was speaking in an interview on Xfm 95.1.

Mr Anyidoho said the President’s visits were nothing short of a working tour.

“The President is working, trying to bring to the fore the work that he has been doing. He gets into the places; there is massive support and massive euphoria… why not? The President is coming to the region to work; those who are saying that he is coming to campaign, let them think so”.

On reports that the President is using the opportunity to address party executives to further hone his ambition, Mr Anyidoho explained that has been the norm, far from a political campaign.

“He has addressed party executives everywhere he has been; Upper East, Upper West, Brong Ahafo, and he is going to do it in the Greater Accra, Eastern Regions, everywhere. They run the party on the ground, and as leader of the party, he dare not come into a region and goes without meeting his party executives. That is going to be the end of the President in that region and no President who want to show respect to party executives will enter a region and not confer with his party executives”.