I’m not ‘KOKA’ in Ken Agyapong’s statement –COKA sets record
Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman hopeful, Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA), has issued a strong rebuttal after his name was caught up in a political storm triggered by a statement from the Ken Ohene Agyapong Campaign, stating categorically that he is not the ‘Koka’ they refer to.
The Ken Agyapong Campaign, in a press release dated Thursday, October 2, 2025, and signed by its Communications Director, Kwaku Amoh-Darteh, Esq., had warned Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s camp against “reckless defamation and personal attacks” being peddled by his surrogates. The statement singled out one Kwaku Osei Korankye Asiedu (popularly known as KOKA) as a loyalist of Dr. Bawumia who had allegedly “launched vicious and unprovoked attacks” on the person of Hon. Ken Ohene Agyapong.
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The release read in part: “Our campaign has consistently focused on ideas, vision and principle. We have not resorted to personal vilification. Yet, in a recent and widely circulated video on Wontumi Television, one Kwaku Osei Korankye Asiedu (popularly known as ‘KOKA’), a well-known loyalist of Dr. Bawumia, launched vicious and unprovoked attacks on the person of Hon. Ken Ohene Agyapong.”
It added: “It is therefore both astonishing and hypocritical for any of Dr. Bawumia’s followers to portray him as a ‘peaceful person’ while his camp tolerates and benefits from intimidation, bullying and abusive rhetoric. Silence in the face of such conduct is itself an endorsement. By failing to repudiate these attacks, Dr. Bawumia and his inner circle have, through inaction, condoned them.”
The campaign further warned that the Agyapong team would not sit idle if such attacks persisted. “Let there be no ambiguity; the Ken Ohene Agyapong Camp knows too much to allow reckless defamation to go unanswered. If they choose instead to drag this campaign into the gutter of personal vilification, they will awaken consequences they will come to regret,” the statement cautioned.
COKA Provides Clarity:
But the use of the nickname “KOKA” in the release sparked a flurry of confusion, with many party faithful and the public wrongly assuming the statement was targeted at the respected Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA), the Ashanti NPP stalwart.
Reacting swiftly to dispel the confusion, COKA set the record straight, insisting that he was not the individual being referred to in the Ken Agyapong Campaign’s statement.
“I have been receiving many calls regarding a statement issued by Hon. Ken Agyapong’s team over KOKA. Please be informed that the statement made by Hon. Ken Agyapong’s team is not in reference to me (Chairman COKA). The person in reference is Kwaku Osei Korankye Asiedu (KOKA). I kindly ask everyone to take note,” he clarified.
The Ashanti Regional Chairman aspirant emphasized that his political track record is well known and that he does not engage in reckless insults or unprovoked attacks. Instead, he reaffirmed his focus on promoting unity, discipline, and the strengthening of the New Patriotic Party.
COKA’s intervention comes at a sensitive time as internal competition between Dr. Bawumia’s and Ken Agyapong’s camps intensifies ahead of the party’s leadership race slated for January 31, 2025.
Source: Purefmonlinegh.com/Evans Osei-Bonsu
