'Koku Anyidoho is an intellectually inept politician who talks anyhow', Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jr. has said.

Mr Anyidoho has been in the custody of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for almost 48 hours, and has been charged with treason felony following his radio comments that President Nana Akufo-Addo would be toppled in a civilian coup d’état.

He told Happy FM on Monday, 26 March that: “Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself.

“On January 13, 1972 a certain Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a movement that removed the Progress Party from power. Busia was the Prime Minister and Akufo-Addo’s father was a ceremonial president. Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself.

“There’ll be a civil revolt. There’ll be a people’s movement. During President John Mahama’s tenure didn’t we receive similar threats from the likes of Let My Vote Count and OccupyGhana.”

“There’ll be a civilian coup d’etat; there’ll be a social revolution and the movement is starting on Wednesday. He [Akufo-Addo] will be fed up at the presidency,” Mr Anyidoho said.



Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme hosted by Randy Abbey on Thursday, 29 March, Mr Baako said Mr Anyidoho’s reference to “history repeating itself” as far as the 13 January 1972 coup is concerned, belied the NDC Deputy General Secretary’s sudden flip to civilian coup d’état in the same interview.

“… In the course of the discussions with whomever was interviewing him – I think upon some prompting – he now decides to talk about civilian coup d’état. See, it’s intellectually inept, politically nonsensical, it doesn’t make sense.

“January 13, 1972, what we have on record is that there was a coup d’état, a military intervention that torpedoed the second republic and for that matter abolished the constitutional order.

“So, when you go on air and out of – is it either kindergarten enthusiasm or western cow-boyism, you think you are the Blow Man, nobody can touch you, so you talk and talk by heart; suddenly he realised that he had made a statement that was politically incorrect, that he didn’t have to make, so within the same context he ordered to do some mitigation, damage repair – he brings in civilian coup d’état, that again is unsustainable.

“This is an intellectually inept spokesperson of a political party. What is civilian coup d’état?” Mr Baako wondered.