The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has spoken about a past incident in which he travelled to Germany on a state visit with President John Dramani Mahama wearing his wife’s coat.
According to him, at the time, he was more concerned about protecting himself from the cold weather in Germany than about his choice of attire.
He explained that his focus was on the purpose of the visit and the discussions he was expected to have, rather than what he was wearing.
Speaking in an interview on Onua TV on September 1, 2026, while wishing his wife, Vida Adomah Nketiah, a happy birthday, he recalled the incident.
“Today is my wife Vida’s birthday, and if you remember, it was her coat that I wore some time ago. If you are going to a place where it is cold and you have been given something to clothe yourself with, is that the time you have to consider whether it belongs to a lady or not?
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“So, for me, going to Germany to pay a visit to Angela Merkel, she didn’t say I should come there for a beauty contest. We went there for brainwork. And would you even get the chance to use your wife’s coat?”
It may be recalled that Johnson Asiedu Nketiah was photographed wearing a camel-coloured, fur-trimmed coat during the trip and was subsequently ridiculed by fellow politicians and social media users during his visit to Germany in January 2015.
According to him at the time, nobody in Germany commented on his choice of attire. However, it was a different story back home in Ghana, where an NPP politician seized on his fashion choice as evidence of a “totally confused” administration.
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