Joseph Ade Coker Is A Dangerous Man!

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

Anybody who knows a reasonably good little bit about Fourth Republican Ghanaian politics, knows that the name of Joseph Ade Coker does not ring progressive by any stretch of the imagination. And so when the Greater-Accra regional chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) admonishes his fellow citizens not to attempt to destabilize the country, in the event of the verdict of the Atuguba-presided Supreme Court hearing of the Akufo-Addo/New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential petition not going their way, you darn well know that the man is either advising or talking to himself. He may also be bugging out, of course (See "Don't Attempt To Destabilize Ghana - Ade Coker Warns" JoyOnline.com/Ghanaweb.com 7/20/13).

Indeed, no major political party operative is widely known to be more violent - both rhetorically and physically - than the NDC regional chairman. In April 2012, for instance, when Ms. Ursula Owusu, the internationally renowned women's rights activist-lawyer, was brutally assaulted by goons and thugs alleged to have been recruited by the Mills-Mahama-led National Democratic Congress, Mr. Ade Coker's quick response was that Ms. Owusu deserved every blow and kick delivered on her person because she had been campaigning for parliament in the wrong constituency.

Well, there was absolutely nothing illegal about what Ms. Owusu had done; she had simply gone to the Odododiodio Constituency, adjacent to her own, to help rally support for a fellow New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate who was having a hard time. Mr. Ade Coker would also be later reported to have claimed that the present NPP-MP for Ablekuma-West Constituency was sashaying in a provocative manner that was unbecoming of a good woman, and that was why she had to be so savagely assaulted.

And so it is rather annoying to hear this most violent political operative pretending as if it is somebody else on whom the searchlights of our national security establishment ought to be focused. Mr. Ade Coker has also been implicated in a serious financial impropriety of scandalous proportions regarding his present job as an NDC regional chief. And so, really, if any individual needs to be warned against attempting to destabilize the country because s/he is not having their way, that individual, of course, is no other personality than the Greater-Accra regional chairman of the National Democratic Congress.

Already, Mr. Ade Coker has been widely quoted to be mischievously implying that absolutely no court in the land can overturn the forensically fraudulent declaration and swearing in of Mr. John Dramani Mahama as President of the Democratic Republic of Ghana. Dear reader, you just take a reading of the following quote attributed to Mr. Ade Coker and make up your mind: "It is God who installs kings and gave us one in December; so I think we are moving [on] as a country. Elections are always won at the polling station, so I think nothing will change after the court case."

In essence, what Mr. Joseph Ade Coker clearly appears to be implying in the foregoing quote is that it was, indeed, Divine Providence Her-/Himself that declared and swore in Mr. John Dramani Mahama as President of Fourth-Republican Ghana, and not the criminally minded and collusive Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, the irredeemably disgraced chairman of Ghana's Electoral Commission.

Now, this is a very "destabilizingly" dangerous way for any major political operative in a judicially independent Republic of Ghana to think. And if by this trend of treasonous thinking Mr. Ade Coker hopes to intimidate the Supreme Court into accepting both the legally and morally untenable, then, quite obviously, Mr. Ade Coker tragically bargained to be born in the wrong country.

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*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
July 20, 2013
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
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