I wrote all the speeches from Atta Mills – Koku Anyidoho

General News on Thursday, February 14, 2019

Source: peacefmonline.com

2019-02-14

Koku Anyidoho, former communications director of the John Evans Atta Mills presidency, acknowledged that it would be very "difficult" to get rid of his former boss.

Indeed, he had neither friend nor mentor like the former president.

According to him, his closeness to the former dead president was so sincere to the extent that he could even "think" for Mr. Mills in his presidential speeches that he had written.

Koku, who spoke about Ekosii Sen's political program on Asempa FM, said his position as director of communications had been consolidated even before Ghanaians affirmed the presidency of the late Mills.

"I was writing for him before he became president. I wrote all his [Late John Evans Mills] opposition speeches to the government, AU speeches, all ECOWAS speeches, national Thanksgiving speeches, Independence Day speeches, speeches on the State of the nation. I, Koku Anyidoho, have written all the speeches. It's a story I have to tell myself. The records are there, he said.

The former deputy secretary general of the NDC said his job was too demanding: "Sometimes I have to lock myself up in my room for two weeks to make things run smoothly for the president."

"President Mills, deceased, will always go to Parliament for the nation's speech with a draft of my speech and not the final copy. The president trusted me. Sometimes I could even think for him, I understood him, I plunged into his system to be able to think and write for him and he does not make a change, "he revealed.