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Koku Anyidoho denies saying "I don’t like Kufuor’s face"
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, October 8, Ghanadot - The Communications Director at the presidency, Mr Koku Anyidoho, has denied media reports that he hates former President Kufuor.

According to him, his comments were taken out of context explaining that his dislike for former president Kufuor stemmed from certain decisions of the former president.

“I may not like Mr Kufuor and indeed I don’t like his face because of certain things he did. I mean if you are leaving office and days before you leave you release armed robbers and it comes out that one of them is establishing an armed robbery academy, training young boys you don’t expect me to like him.”

Speaking on Joy FM, the Communications Director at the Presidency said “the fact that I don’t like president Kufuor doesn’t mean that we can just get up and go and carry him and throw him in jail,” he stated.

On his controversial attack on another leading member of the NDC, Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, he said Dr Spio-Garbrah’s comments needed to be responded to.

Mr. Anyidoho denied insulting the former Communications Minister in the previous NDC government insisting that the reference to Dr Spio-Garbrah as “a man walking around like a peacock with a cheap doctorate degree” was not meant to be an insult. “It was an idiomatic expression.”

Mr Anyidoho is irritated by comments by Dr Spio-Garbrah that the president had fielded a ‘Team B’ leaving out a ‘Team A’.

The Communication Director was particularly discontented with Dr Spio-Garbrah’s claim that “Lobbying has been raised to a high fine art, and many have been appointed not on the basis of merit but by virtue of proximity to power, feigned loyalty, financial considerations and other factors.”

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