Koku Anyidoho, a former party member, has received a strong warning from Mr. Mustapha Gbande, the Deputy General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He stated that if Mr. Anyidoho tries to interfere with another NDC program in the future, party members will beat him.
Mr. Gbande said, “If Koku Anyidoho becomes a disruption at any NDC program, we will beat him and hand him over to the police.” “If Koku Anyidoho dares to do what he did in the name of the Atta-Mills Institute again, we will beat him up and subsequently hand him over to the police,” he said, making explicit reference to Mr. Anyidoho’s recent actions at Asomdwe Park.
Mr. Gbande voiced his displeasure with Mr. Anyidoho’s behavior, describing it as “buffoonery” and noting that the party had tolerated it for too long.
He mentioned that if he and others had been present at the scene on Wednesday, 24 July 2024, when Anyidoho nearly disrupted the 12th-anniversary commemoration of late President John Evans Atta-Mills, they would have confronted him.
“The next time such an incident happens, we’ll beat him up—take my word for it,” Gbande asserted. He highlighted the NDC’s principle of tolerating dissenting views but emphasized that Mr. Anyidoho’s actions in recent times had crossed a line.
Mr. Gbande also pointed out the irony of people seeing him in a different light because he had previously defended Mr. Anyidoho when the party decided to suspend him for misconduct. “The fact that Mr. Anyidoho worked with the late Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills does not make him a family member,” Ghande added, comparing it to his own experience working with the late Dr. Kwabena Adjei, former National Chairman of the NDC, saying this does not make him a member of the family of the late National Chairman.
Mustapha Ghande criticized President Akufo-Addo for tolerating Mr. Anyidoho’s demand for an autopsy of the late President Mills, stating that such matters should be reserved for the immediate family.
