The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it may be forced to respond to the verbal attacks and insults Mr Koku Anyidoho of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been hurling at its vice-presidential candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

Mr Anthony Karbo, a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, sounded the warning.

Mr Anyidoho has continually attacked Dr Bawumia, once describing him as a “pathological liar”, especially following claims by the former Second Deputy Governor of Ghana’s central bank that there were some 76,000 Togolese on Ghana’s voter register.

Over the weekend, at an NDC rally in Kumasi, he further described Dr Bawumia in Hausa as “Mutum Banza”, to wit a useless person or a nonentity.

But Mr Karbo has indicated that the NPP and Dr Bawumia have had enough of the attacks from Mr Anyidoho, hence, the party would soon respond in equal measures.

“We are ready for Koku Anyidoho, because it is only in this country that he thinks he can continuously attack Dr Bawumia and go scot free. We will respond and the President will take the full responsibility for the actions that we are going to take in respect of these attacks on Dr Bawumia. This is not because we think he’s a god or an angel; we are all doing politics but when the attacks turn personal, it becomes a cause for concern.”

He added: “We have a lot of arsenal to use to attack the person of President Mahama, but we’ll not go that way of insulting him. I don’t agree with his corruption, his incompetence, and his greed, but it doesn’t mean that I will take this argument to a point that I will insult the person of the president. Koku Anyidoho should know that these incessant attacks on Dr Bawumia can create a big problem for him. We are advising him to desist or we’ll direct our attack at the president. We are tired of Koku Anyidoho’s buffoonery.”