NDC Congress: Koku made a wrong move – Ade Coker

The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Ade Coker, has stated that, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia’s re-election as General Secretary of the party, was expected.

Known by his moniker ‘General Mosquito’, Mr Asiedu Nketia routed his Deputy and only contender in the two-man race, Mr Koku Anyidoho.

According to provisional results, Mr Nketia, a three-time former MP for Wenchi West Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, from 1993 to 2000, who was first elected as General Secretary in 2008, polled 6,642 while Mr Anyidoho could only manage 1,624 votes.

“It’s very important that people should take lessons from this. Don’t try to upstage your boss. You can never, never upstage your boss. You have to let your boss put you [on] a certain pedestal and with his blessing, you can move up,” he said on Sunday, 18 November 2018, after the provisional results of the elections at the Trade Fair Centre were announced.

“If Koku had consulted me”, Mr Coker said: “I would have asked him to go for another position… It was a wrong move. It was a wrong move. Koku is a nice guy; he is a very nice gentleman but it is a wrong move.

“You see, it is like a father and son… Somebody that you have worked with closely and you go and you want to contest that person. It’s never the best… In every aspect of life there is that lesson,” he said.

In his opinion, “Everybody knew that Asiedu Nketia is very formidable. He is an old horse, an old fox and that confidence shows in him. We need people who have got experience to run the party. So, I believe there is a need for us to blend the old and the new. So, it is a good result,” he told JoyFM.