*The national youth leader of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has asked President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills to, without delay, remove from office the Communications Director at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, or resign as President of Ghana.* * * * * Mr Divine Nkrumah’s call for President Mills to fire his communications director stems from the reason that Mr Anyidoho misconducted himself in the wake of the power cut during the World Cup qualifier between Lesotho and Ghana at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi last Sunday.

In an interview with the media, the PPP national youth organiser intimated that Mr Anyidoho lied to Ghanaians when he announced to the whole nation that the ECG manager at Ashanti Region has been sacked because the President was upset about what happened at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium — a situation which later turned out to be untrue.

Mr Nkrumah said Mr Anyidoho’s conduct is a denigration of the highest office of the land and a gross disrespect to the good people of this country.

He went on to add that what Anyidoho did was not only ‘terrible’ but a ‘bad precedent’ where persons at the Office of the President can use the presidency to vilify and harass innocent Ghanaians.

The outspoken PPP national youth leader also noted that Mr Anyidoho’s action is a clear demonstration that President Mills was not in charge of his administration.

“…Clearly we are seeing a situation where the president is completely not in charge of his administration. This is not the first time we have had persons at the presidency using the president’s name to take actions which the president has no inkling about,” Mr Nkrumah stressed.

Along this line Mr Nkrumah urged President Mills to take full control of his government and take a decisive action against Mr Anyidoho.

“We are calling on President Mills to put his boys to order and stop them from using his name to bring the name of Ghana into disrepute,” the PPP youth leader advised.

He also seized the opportunity to commend the senior national team, the Black Stars, who, according to him, put up a sterling performance to rout the Crocodiles of Lesotho by 7-0.

Signed: Divine Nkrumah National Youth Cordinator PPP