“If Kweku Baako Says I’m His Friend,
I’ll Rather Not Have An Enemy”


Suspended National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Paul Afoko, has laughed off assertions by Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, that “he (Afoko) can consider me a friend because we’ve been friends.”

Sources close to the embattled NPP chairman told this paper that Mr. Afoko believes that ‘if Kweku Baako still insists we are friends, I’ll rather not have an enemy.’ According to the source, Mr Afoko, short of saying Kweku Baako has become worse than an enemy, believes the vile but unsuccessful attempts to run him (Afoko) down is not surprising

The al-Hajj has information that MrAfoko is not bothered by what “Mr. Kweku Baako has been hired by the “intolerant militant” in the NPP to do. So far, he (Baako) has soiled his already battered image. How can someone who claims to be a friend accepts to do the kind of dirty things Kweku Baako is doing to chairman?”

“Honestly, I am yet to come across someone like Kweku Baako…a person who can state in public that he is your friend but will accept a hired job to denigrate you. What kind of friend is that person?” the source queried.

The New Crusading Guide Editor-In-Chief has for some time now picked on Paul Afoko following the latter’s explosive interview with the Africa Watch Magazine that he was not aware of any decision by his party to import four Serbians into the country in 2014 to give “special training” to selected members of the party

Reacting to press statement by Nana Yaw Osei, spokesperson for the NPP suspended chairman, who chastised the one-time journalist of the year for abandoning journalism for propaganda, Mr. Kweku Baako said he has "nothing personal against Paul Afoko. If he will permit, he can consider me a friend because we’ve been friends. I don’t know if he considers me a friend now. I have respect for him. Everybody knows that during the campaign for chairmanship, for some reason (I don’t know who organized it) but I ignored it. My newspaper became the platform to champion his chairmanship aspirations. I defended him against allegations.. . which I thought were not fair to him.”

Contrary to the claims by the Spokesperson for Mr. Afoko that the latter "did not address the participants on the first day of the 4-day training programme as it is being falsely put out into the public domain...", Kweku Baako nevertheless, "put on record that Afoko spoke on the first day of the training programme. He did. Indeed, before he spoke; Kwabena Agyepong spoke. Kwabena Agyepong spoke first, Afoko spoke second.”

This was after the suspended chairman had in his strongly worded statement said “Mr. Baako lied again that Chairman Afoko after being informed of the Serbian training by the NPP National Women Organiser, Otiko Afisa Djaba, went and stopped the program . . . Nowhere in the interview with the Africa Watch Magazine did Mr. Afoko state that he went to stop the meeting. So where did Kweku Baako get that information from? He must tell the whole world because the magazine is still in circulation."

But Kweku Baako insisted that “Afoko spoke on the first day of the training programme. He did. Indeed, before he spoke; Kwabena Agyepong spoke. Kwabena Agyepong spoke first, Afoko spoke second.”