By: Kobina Baidoo
Founder and President of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho has revealed that he never planned to work under the late ex-president John Evans Atta Mills.
Mr. Anyidoho in an interview on Happy 98.9FM’s Epa Hoa Daben show with host Bismark Brown, recalled his conversation with the late Ghanaian president who saw him as part of an elite group that will develop a formidable strategy to ensure the victory of the National Democratic Congress in 2008. According to Mr. Anyidoho, Professor Mills told him, he will need him fully on board, admitting that he may not have the means to gainfully employ him. “I had finished my morning devotion when I received a call from Professor Mills who made his intentions of a second trial clear to me after his unsuccessful bid to win the general elections in 2006; I had to resign from my well paying job at the Metropolitan Allied Bank knowing that Prof. Mills did not have the means to pay me.”
The renowned politician stated that he received many calls from former colleagues within the banking sector who ridiculed him for resigning his banking job to join the camp of Professor Mills. “Many of my former colleagues called me to laugh at me; they wondered why I would resign to go and work for someone who had lost an election.”
He added that Prof. Mills believed that he Koku Anyidoho was the right person to help him win the NDC’s internal primaries as flagbearer in 2007 and eventually help him to secure victory in the general elections in 2008.