NDC members used a ‘comfortable leadership’ comment against me – Koku

Wednesday October 28, 2020 Policy

Source: Kasapa FM

2020-10-28

Former Deputy Secretary General of the opposition NDC party, Koku Anyidoho, has revealed that his fellow NDC members painfully used his popular slogan of “comfortable leadership” against him when he decided to run as the substantive secretary general of the party.

According to him, party members vilified him and used that comment to run him down.

The phrase “comfortable advantage” became very popular during the December 2016 elections when Koku Anyidoho insisted that the figures available to him suggest that the NDC was winning the elections despite the contrary results presented by the Election Commission.

The catchphrase was used to quell the frustrations of its supporters, as it was a difficult moment to admit when the ruling NDC party knew it was losing but had to devise a strategy to keep the hopes of its frustrated supporters.

The NDC lost miserably in the 2016 election when opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won 53% of all valid votes cast versus 44% for John Mahama.

Campaign spokeswoman Joyce Bawa Mogtari and later Assistant Secretary General Koku Anyidoho clung to the statement: “We are at a comfortable advantage” as her eager supporters demand assurances from the party hierarchy as the PNP side rejoices.

But commenting on the phrase almost four years later in an interview on Okay FM monitored by Kasapafmonline.com, Koku Anydoho, who says he now decided to stay away from frontline party campaigns, as he is now a ‘common floor member ‘of the NDC.

“During the elections that popular phrase was used against me. They called me a liar, people said that I had lied to the party and that I was not in a position to be elected general secretary. They said that I speak from memory and that I am a talker. They vilified me very well, now, I am not a talker again so I will not make any predictions. We adopted that strategy for something important at the time. I adopted that strategy and then painfully used it against myself. Now, we all know how to be nice and we will be nice. “