{"id":274616,"date":"2011-01-21T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=48852"},"modified":"2011-01-21T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T14:25:36","slug":"simple-class-one-question-nana-addo-couldnt-answer-koku-anyidoho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/21\/simple-class-one-question-nana-addo-couldnt-answer-koku-anyidoho\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple, Class One question Nana Addo couldn\u2019t answer – Koku Anyidoho"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Koku Anyidoho<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHead 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.<\/div>\n
Koku wants Nana Addo to state whether as president, he would have ordered Ghanaian soldiers to war in Cote d\u2019Ivoire, saying Nana failed to answer that simple question when he was asked Thursday morning.<\/div>\n
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\u2019s 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.<\/div>\n
But speaking on Asempa FM\u2019s popular afternoon programme, Ekosii Sen, the Head of Communications at the Presidency said President Mills\u2019 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 \u2018be a man\u2019 when he was offered the opportunity to state what path he would have chosen if he had the chance.<\/div>\n
\u201cPresident Mills has continued to reiterate the point that he stands by the ECOWAS decision. It\u2019s been in the papers, it\u2019s 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\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
According to Koku, the NPP\u2019s press conference was one lacking a tail or head \u201cmuch-ado-about-nothing\u201d, for he had expected Nana Addo to be man enough. \u201cWhat is Akufo-Addo\u2019s position on the Ivorian crisis? It\u2019s as simple as that\u201d, said Koku, adding \u201cHe (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\u201d if he would send soldiers to war.<\/div>\n
Describing the question as a \u201cclass one question\u201d, he said the NPP and Nana Addo should stop dancing around it and proffer a straight answer.<\/div>\n
\u201cNana Akufo-Addo let us know your position. It\u2019s as simple as that, I won\u2019t grow from that question. I will still be an infant on that question, hundred years I\u2019ll 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\u2019Ivoire 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 \u2026, 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\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
Nana Addo\u2019s spokesperson on the Ivorian Crisis, John Boadu, retorted that Ghana\u2019s 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\u2019 military intervention decision, Ghana has not been regular at ECOWAS military chiefs\u2019 meetings.<\/div>\n
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 communiqu\u00e9 but he intended to consult with his military chiefs if the need to apply force on Gbagbo arose.<\/div>\n
Listen to John Boadu<\/div>\n
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.<\/div>\n
Story by Isaac Yeboah<\/div>\n

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.
\nKoku wants Nana Addo to state whether as president, he would have ordered Ghanaian soldiers to war in Cote d\u2019Ivoire, saying Nana failed to answer that simple question when he was asked Thursday morning.
\nThe 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\u2019s 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.
\nBut speaking on Asempa FM\u2019s popular afternoon programme, Ekosii Sen, the Head of Communications at the Presidency said President Mills\u2019 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 \u2018be a man\u2019 when he was offered the opportunity to state what path he would have chosen if he had the chance.
\n\u201cPresident Mills has continued to reiterate the point that he stands by the ECOWAS decision. It\u2019s been in the papers, it\u2019s 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\u2026\u201d
\nAccording to Koku, the NPP\u2019s press conference was one lacking a tail or head \u201cmuch-ado-about-nothing\u201d, for he had expected Nana Addo to be man enough. \u201cWhat is Akufo-Addo\u2019s position on the Ivorian crisis? It\u2019s as simple as that\u201d, said Koku, adding \u201cHe (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\u201d if he would send soldiers to war.
\nDescribing the question as a \u201cclass one question\u201d, he said the NPP and Nana Addo should stop dancing around it and proffer a straight answer.
\n\u201cNana Akufo-Addo let us know your position. It\u2019s as simple as that, I won\u2019t grow from that question. I will still be an infant on that question, hundred years I\u2019ll 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\u2019Ivoire 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 \u2026, 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\u2026\u201d
\nNana Addo\u2019s spokesperson on the Ivorian Crisis, John Boadu, retorted that Ghana\u2019s 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\u2019 military intervention decision, Ghana has not been regular at ECOWAS military chiefs\u2019 meetings.
\nHe 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 communiqu\u00e9 but he intended to consult with his military chiefs if the need to apply force on Gbagbo arose.Listen to John Boadu
\nAccording 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.
\nStory by Isaac Yeboah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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