Who Is Useless...Bawumia Or Anyidoho

A deputy communications director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Abayifa Karbo has called on Ghanaians to compare the achievements and personalities of the party’s running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and that of deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to determine who is more of a ‘useless person’.


Karbo’s comment on the need to compare the personalities and achievements of the two politicians comes in the wake of claims by Koku Anyidoho that Dr Bawumia is a ‘useless person’.

Koku Anyidoho has in the past few months launched a sustained attack on the person of Dr Bawumia calling him a liar, claiming he failed to provide an iota of evidence to back his allegation of over 76,286 Togolese nationals are on Ghana’s voters register.

The former Presidential spokesperson has vowed to torment Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who is a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, if he fails to produce his list of Togolese on Ghana’s voters roll.

Addressing a rally of NDC supporters in Kumasi on Saturday, Koku Anyidoho stated that Dr Bawumia is a dishonest politician who has made lying his stock in trade and should not be rewarded with the second most highest office of the land.

He further described Dr Bawumia as “Mutum Banza”, a Hausa expression used to describe a worthless person. In other words, “Mutum Banza” means “a useless person” or “a nonentity.”

Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Programme Monday, Anthony Karbo said he was shocked at the description given Dr Bawumia by Koku Anyidoho.

“I want your online people to put up pictures of the two, Koku Anyidoho and Dr Bawumia so Ghanaians would decide who is more useless or who looks like a useless person…,” he said.

To him, the former presidential spokesperson was not worth the attention as he was a clear ‘mismatch’ for Dr Bawmumia in terms of achievements and personality.

Politics, he said should be about issues and policies and not about attacks on personalities and unnecessary insults.

“I will never insult the person of President Mahama, I would disagree with him in terms of his policies but not attack his person…,” he said.