Samuel Koku Anyidoho, former Deputy Common Secretary of the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC), has threatened to sue investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni relating to allegedly defamatory assertions contained within the publication “The Fourth John: Reign, Rejection and Rebound.”
The plaintiff contests the writer’s characterisation of his relative affect throughout his tenure as Head of Communications on the Presidency.
In a number of social media communiqués dated March 25, 2025, Anyidoho declared:
Manasseh Azure needs to be prepared for my subsequent swimsuit due to what he wrote about me in his ebook. Manasseh Azure interviewed me for a ebook he mentioned he was writing.
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He requested me questions, and I answered him. So, it’s disingenuous of him to jot down that I used to be extra highly effective than Vice President Mahama. I used to be by no means extra highly effective than the vice chairman.
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I need to salvage my popularity. I used to be by no means extra highly effective than Vice President John Mahama once I labored with President Mills. Manasseh Azure will show to me in courtroom how he knew me to be extra highly effective than the vice chairman.
Anyidoho takes authorized actions towards Captain Good
This improvement follows Anyidoho’s current establishment of a GH¢5 million defamation swimsuit on the Accra Excessive Court docket (March 25, 2025) towards media character Blessed Godsbrain Good (professionally generally known as Captain Good), pertaining to allegedly injurious statements broadcast in February 2025 and subsequently disseminated by GhanaWeb.
The plaintiff maintains these publications have:
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Cures sought embrace:
1. GH¢5 million in mixed compensatory and exemplary damages
2. Judicial order for full retraction
3. Everlasting injunctive reduction towards additional publication
Contextual background from contested publication
The disputed textual content characterises Anyidoho as having exercised distinctive authority through the Mills administration, together with situations of unilateral pronouncements.
Notably, it references a June 2012 incident throughout a Black Stars qualifying match when Anyidoho allegedly declared on Pleasure FM:
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“President Atta-Mills is upset, and all people who has a job to play on this may have their heads roll,” subsequently specifying the termination of the Ashanti Regional ECG Director.
The publication notes this declaration was disavowed by then-information minister Fritz Baffour, who acknowledged:
The president has given no such directive, and it’s subsequently not true that the ECG boss within the Ashanti Area has been fired.
Moreover, the textual content suggests these autonomous communications difficult governance throughout President Mills’ sickness, asserting:
The perspective of some presidential staffers and ministers upset [Vice President Mahama] so badly that he as soon as determined to stop as vice chairman.” It particulars an aborted resignation try, interrupted when a chief director found the near-complete draft throughout routine workplace oversight.
The narrative concludes by observing the following constitutional transition following President Mills’ passing on July 24, 2012, whereby then-Vice President Mahama assumed govt authority and secured electoral affirmation.
