President of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has disclosed that the late President John Evans Atta-Mills regretted his decision to appoint former President John Mahama as vice a few years into power.
According to the former aide to the late President Mills, Mahama’s relationship with President Mills grew sour as the latter had no trust and confidence in Mahama as vice.
In an exclusive interview on Happy 98.9 FM’s “Epa Hoa Daben” socio-political talk show, Koku Anyidoho reiterated that despite Mahama serving as the Head of the country’s economic management team, the group was non-functional as President Mills appointed an advisory committee to proliferate Ghana’s economy.
“People say he was head of the economic management team under Prof Mills but the fact is it wasn’t working. So Prof created his own advisory economic team because he didn’t have faith in Mahama. The Economic Management Team everyone knew at the time was non-functioning so he created his own advisory team chaired by Dr. Gorbin Nankani who later left to the IMF. He was a brilliant guy together with Emmanuel Ablorh and Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur and a few other people who were actually doing the economic thinking for the country. So Prof actually sidestepped Mahama on a lot of this and was running this country in his own,” he disclosed.
For him, Mahama’s readiness to return to power comes as an “ordinate desire for power that is destroying the NDC party’s tradition.”
“You were given the opportunity with a strong economy built by President Mills. Dr. Duffour was then the Finance Minister and Amissah was the Governor and Mahama had a solid economy with over 36 months single digit inflation and stable currency, introduction of single spin salary and heavy infrastructural development. You came and because you didn’t like Mills you changed every input he did. Then you appointed Seth Terkpe as your Finance Minister and you arrogantly agreed you two collapsed it,” Koku Anyidoho lamented.
