[ 2016-07-20 ]

Atta Mills was hesitant about politics because he feared insults – Anyidoho
Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National
Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has said
although Late President, Prof. John Evans Atta
Mills was passionate to leave a legacy in the
political realm, he was as well reluctant being a
politician.

”He agreed to become the running mate for
President Rawlings reluctantly in 1996,”
Anyidoho revealed on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5
FM.

In an interaction with host Kwaku Owusu Adjei on
Kasapa 102.5 FM, the Deputy Scribe of the NDC said
the late Ghanaian leader was too gripped in fears
with the fatalities of the political game Vis a
Vis his image, hence he was always living in fears
of the abuse attached to politics.

“He asked me one day, that Koku have I
disgraced myself like this? So because of politics
these people that I taught in school will just sit
on radio and be insulting me like that? They
can’t remember that I impacted knowledge into
them and that at least give some respect? And I
told him well Prof. that is the name of the game.
Infact he was a reluctant politician,” Anyidoho
reiterated.

Anyidoho who had an intimate working relationship
with the late president said Prof Atta Mills
ultimate dream was to build a better Ghana for the
people whom he served diligently.

He eulogized the late Prof. Mills Wednesday on
Kasapa FM ahead of this year’s Atta Mills
Memorial Lecture in honour of late President.

This year’s lecture, which will be the fourth
in his commemoration, is under the theme: ‘Atta
Mills: the Servant Leader’.

The lecture will take place at the main
auditorium of the University of Cape Coast.

President John Mahama is expected to commission a
library built in the late president’s honour,
that is, the John Evans Atta Mills Presidential
Library on that day.

The library has been built near the Chapel Square
in Cape Coast, where the first anniversary of the
death of the late president was marked.

Source - kasapaonline.com

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