Koku Anyidoho turns guns on 'diapers-wearing, bed-wetting'and 'néophytes' FONKAR
Koku Anyidoho, Communications Director at the Presidency, Wednesday morning had a hard time 'restraining' himself from going bonkers at FONKAR, the political grouping that has claimed it will decide the fate of President John Mills in the 2012 elections.
But while restraining himself, Koku let go high-flying denigrations to clear his chest of what he said was a long overdue retort to FONKAR's 'concoctions and fabrications' against President Mills.
Koku Anyidoho was speaking on Radio Gold to respond to a Daily Guide publication that the President had last Friday held a meeting with his campaigners at the Peduase Lodge during which he allegedly said he did not need former President Jerry Rawlings or his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings to retain power in the 2012 elections.
The publication cited a statement by FONKAR, otherwise known as Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, a splinter of the ruling National Democratic Congress which constituted the support base for the former First Lady in her attempt to wrest the presidential candidacy of the party. The statement, according to the publication, condemned the alleged rejection of the Rawlingses by President Mills and called it “a product of ill advice from the same sycophants, flatterers and ingrates who are bent on taking the NDC into opposition and destroying the Rawlings legacy for their own parochial interests.”
When President Mills won the NDC presidential primary, FONKAR alleged fraud and later vowed it may not be part of the Mills campaign to retain power. A leader of the group once claimed it had enough arsenals to unmake the Mills campaign.
But Koku Anyidoho said the group can virtually please itself, but warned them to mind their conduct against the President because henceforth, they would have him to contend with.
Denying vehemently that the President was nowhere at Peduase Lodge, Koku said “it is not true, you see, these infants, these diapers-wearing, bed-wetting political infants who have grouped themselves into some something, and think that they are going to be able to sink the president in their bed-wetting agenda, it won't work. President Mills did not meet any group of persons at Peduase last week Friday....The only time the President has been to Peduase was when he met the Council of State. [That was in September of last year.]
“So this is an outright fabrication, and so if these diapers-wearing, bed-wetting infants who think that they are the ones who are going to destroy the president and destroy the NDC so they will go and concoct these stories it is not going to work and it is only the Daily Guide that they can find friends for their infantile activities. A bunch of political neophytes who think that they can allow the NDC to get lost ...”
“I have restrained myself from responding to this group since they came out before our Sunyani congress, I have tried very hard to ignore them because they don't deserve any attention but at this point in time, I think that some of us are going to stand up to them. These bunch of.. (holds himself) I must watch my words. These bunch of, you know, like I said, diapers-wearing, bed-wetting political infants, they are not the ones who are going to destroy the NDC or destroy President Mills' chance of getting a second term.”
Describing the relations between President Mills and Rawlings as positive, Koku Anyidoho said President Mills respects the for former president and the fact that he is the founder of the NDC and regularly recounts the opportunity Rawlings offered him to be his vice president and which opportunity has eventually landed him the presidency.
Koku said a “complete rogue, a vagabond, a miscreant” and a jail-bird among the group “who was orbiting in London somewhere” but now walking in Ghana, believes he is the one to create confusion in the NDC but he cannot because he has nothing to back the threat.