{"id":419641,"date":"2017-09-18T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/18\/akufo-addo-is-a-very-smart-politician-koku-anyidoho\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:51:52","slug":"akufo-addo-is-a-very-smart-politician-koku-anyidoho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/18\/akufo-addo-is-a-very-smart-politician-koku-anyidoho\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo Addo is a very smart politician \u2013 Koku Anyidoho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Akufo-Addo-Koku-475x267.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has described President Akufo Addo as an intelligent politician.<\/p>\n<p>According to Koku, who\u2019s an avowed critic of the President, the Ghanaian Leader with his wealth of political experience has always had the presence of mind to take actions to neutralize any difficult situation especially whenever he and his government come under huge pressure.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo Addo\u00a0is set to\u00a0propose legislation to Parliament to designate 4th August as FOUNDERS DAY, and 21st September as KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL DAY, both of which will be observed as public holidays.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0statement from the Presidency and signed by the Director of Communications at the presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin on Sundy said\u00a0the President has to this end issued an Executive Instrument to commemorate this year\u2019s celebration of KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL DAY as a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the development, 21st September, which previously was marked as Founders Day will now be celebrated as Nkrumah Memorial Day in honour of Ghana\u2019s first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the statement released on Sunday noted.<\/p>\n<p>But Koku Anyidoho in an interview with Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on <strong><em>Kasapa 102.5FM<\/em><\/strong>, said the president\u2019s move is a clear diversionary tactic.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNana Akufo Addo is a very smart politician, what he\u2019s introduced into the system this weekend is extremely diversionary and I grant him that, he\u2019s a very smart politician. Just last week he launched the Free SHS programme, and he knows very well that it is beset with a lot of challeneges and he acknowledged that in his speech. He knows that today Monday, people will go back and talk about those issues. lot of issues that will make his government unpopular, so he needed to act quickly and throw in something controversial to change the discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNana Akufo Addo is a smart politician and I grant him that, so over the weekened he and his spin doctors sat down and said no\u2026this week let\u2019s throw something in and that will become the subject of discussion, so that it will drown the problems at the Free SHS level, it will drown the UTAG strike, it will drown the issue of army worms destroying farm crops. And so he and is spin doctors, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko and co, that\u2019s what they sat down this weekend and cooked and they\u2019ve thrown it in and we\u2019re discussing the founders day issue now. But some of us who have been in the political game for a long time understand what is going on, but we\u2019ll not allow the problems relating to the Free SHS programme to lay.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has described President Akufo Addo as an intelligent politician. According to Koku, who\u2019s an avowed critic of the President, the Ghanaian Leader with his wealth of political experience has always had the presence of mind to take actions to neutralize any difficult situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akufo Addo is a very smart politician \u2013 Koku Anyidoho - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/18\/akufo-addo-is-a-very-smart-politician-koku-anyidoho\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Akufo Addo is a very smart politician \u2013 Koku Anyidoho - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has described President Akufo Addo as an intelligent politician. 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