Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Koku Anyidoho has described President Akufo-Addo as an intelligent politician.
According to Mr Anyidoho, who is 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 neutralise any difficult situation, especially whenever he and his government come under huge pressure.
President Akufo-Addo is set to propose 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.
A statement from the Presidency and signed by the Director of Communications at the presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin on Sunday said the President has to this end issued an Executive Instrument to commemorate this year’s celebration of KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL DAY as a public holiday.
Following the development, 21st September, which previously was marked as Founder’s Day will now be celebrated as Nkrumah Memorial Day in honour of Ghana’s First President Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the statement released on Sunday noted.
But, Mr Anyidoho in an interview on Kasapa FM, said the President’s move is a clear diversionary tactic.
“Nana Akufo-Addo is a very smart politician, what he’s introduced into the system this weekend is extremely diversionary and I grant him that, he’s a very smart politician. Just last week he launched the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme, and he knows very well that it is beset with a lot of challenges and he acknowledged that in his speech. He knows that today Monday, people will go back and talk about those issues. Lots of issues that will make his government unpopular, so he needed to act quickly and throw in something controversial to change the discussion.
“Nana Akufo-Addo is a smart politician and I grant him that, so over the weekend he and his spin doctors sat down and said no…this week let’s 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 his spin doctors, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko and co, that’s what they sat down this weekend and cooked and they’ve thrown it in and we’re 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’ll not allow the problems relating to the Free SHS programme to lie low.”
Source: Daily Heritage
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HAHAHAHA, YOU INDEED MUST BE SMART YOURSELF ANYIDOHO.
Thats is what u think cos that is what ur party has been doing. NDC during the montie 3 saga just after they were given the pardon, you people intentional brought an issue about obinim dupping someone of a gold. The case had not even a single truth in it but it made Ghanaians not to talk of montie 3 that time but rather of obinim so it makes u think that is exactly what Nana is doing. You said last week that we took and child to school and u paid fees instead of free shs and yet u say u wont mention the name of the school, u have all intentions to paint the free SHS black but it wont work so better learn to accept it and stop the propaganda. You need free SHS to get a little knowledge to think well
Amazing how i feel now imagining the sought of people who had ruled ghana in the past 8 years....its mind boggling....Absolute NEOPHYTESSS!!!!
WOW. THE LAST COMMENT IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER READ ON THIS TOPIC
KOKU ANYIDOHO IS NOT SMART. NDC IS IN TROUBLE. THEY ALWAYS GET IT WRONG AND BECOME OUTWITTED LIKE THE PHARISEES WHO CONFRONTED JESUS. JESUS SAID TO THEM WHICH IS EASIER TO DO, " TO TELL A PARALYZED MAN YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN OR PICK UP YOUR MAT AND GO?" MARK 2:9. DEAR KOKU ANYIDOHO WHAT IS EASIER TO DEFEND FREE SHS OR THE FOUNDERS' DAY SET PARALLEL TO FOUNDER'S DAY OR NKRUMAH MEMORIAL DAY. WHO HAS PROBLEMS WITH FREE SHS, A SYNDROME WHICH IS RESOUNDINGLY WIDESPREAD IN ALL GHANA. FREE SHS IS WIDELY ACCLAIMED AND APPRECIATED. IT CAN NEVER BE ERASED FROM THE MIND OF THE PEOPLE OF GHANA. MY FATHER WAS A COCOA FARMER YET HE NEVER SUCCEEDED TO GET A COCOA SCHOLARSHIP FOR ANY OF HIS CHILDREN IN SECONDARY SCHOOL THOUGH HE APPLIED AND TRAVELLED MANY TIMES TO ACCRA COCOBOD TO GET ONE. FREE SHS MAY HAVE CHALLENGES BUT CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED. IT HAS BECOME A LIFEWIRE IN GHANA SOCIAL LIFE AND POLITICS. IF KOKU ANYIDOHO WANTS TO BE MISCHIEVOUS ABOUT AKUFFO ADDO THEN HE SHOULD RATHER ARGUED THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS BROUGHT FOUNDERS' DAY AT THE TIME WHEN NOBODY CARE ABOUT NKRUMAK NOR THE BIG SIX OR BIG EIGHT. NOW THE WHOLE NATION IS OVERWHELMED WITH FREE SHS. IF KOKU ANYIDOHO IS SMART HE WOULD HAVE KNOW THAT THE FOUNDERS' DAY IS APPEALING, CONNECTED AND RELATED TO MANY GHANAIANS THAN FOUNDER'S DAY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FORMER WOULD DEFINITELY KILL THE LATTER. KOKU ANYIDOHO YOU ARE LIKE KWAKU ANANSE WHO THOUGHT THAT HE HAD THE SECRET TO ALL WISDOM AND DECIDED TO MONOPOLIZE IT. THINKINKING THAT HE HAD CONTAINED IT FROM EVERYBODY IN THE BOX, HE DECIDED HIDE IT ON TOP OF A TREE. HE CARRIED THE BOX IN FRONT OF HIM AND TRIED TO CLIMB THE TREE BUT FAILED. ANANSE'S SON NTIKUMA SAW HIS FATHER AND PITY HIM FOR HIS WASTED EFFORTS AND LAUGHED AT HIM. HE ADVISED ANANSE TO CARRY THE BOX AT HIS BACK. HE RELUCTANTLY DID SO AND IT WORKED. ANASE REALIZED HOW WRONG WAS HIS ASSUMPTION AND THE FOOOOLLL HE HAD MADE OF HIMSELF. HE GOT ANGRY AND THREW AWAY THE BOX AND ABANDON HIS PROJECT. KOKU THE EARLIER YOU REALIZE YOUR ... AND STOP TO BE MISCHIEVOUS, WICKED, SELF ACCLAIMED WISEMAN, THE BETTER YOU WILL SEE LIGHT. HOW LONG DO YOU WANT TO REMAIN IN DARKNESS. GET ENROLLED IN AKUFFO ADDO FREE SHS AND AND GET BETTER EDUCATION FOR FREE. NDC IDEOLOGICAL CANNOT HELP YOU BUT WORSEN YOUR PREDICAMENT.
Koku, what stops you from also being smart to do something to divert attention instead of commending him. This is why I always the current ndc leaders are very stupidd. You think someone is diverting attention, you are not doing anything about it but praising the person, are not an ediot?
Koku Anyidoho when are you going to stop hating Gabby Otchere-Darko? In any case his father and the name he is holding is from New Juaben (Koforidua) his father was a medical doctor (retired ) and a royal from Koforidua stop disturbing him with your st*pid Akyem mafia nons*nse why do you hate him? we can't understand why you people hate Gabby like that but as well as he was brought up from a good home he doesn't care a hoot about you us*less hateful creatures.