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Koku Anyidoho, Director of Communications at the Castle, has said that President Evans Atta Mills asked him to issue the recent threat against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that he would deal with him ruthlessly. Speaking on an Accra-based radio station, Asempa yesterday, Koku said, �The interview they are playing in Ghana - I made that interview about two weeks ago on Radio Focus (London) after Mac Manu had gone and said on that same network that they were going to arm their people with guns. �And the point the president is making through me is that, let them dare, let them dare, let them dare,� he said. Koku said President Mills was not afraid of accepting defeat. �If in 2012 Ghanaians vote against President Mills, President Mills will not be worried. And all of us will step aside� the Koku Anyidohos, the Fifi Kweteys, the Elvis Ankrahs, the Baba Jamals, the Okudzetos, everybody will step aside because that is the will and the wish of Ghanaians. But for someone to stand somewhere and say that Ghana belongs to him so all die be die, at all cost he shall be president�it will not happen, it will not happen and President Mills will protect the sanctity and the territorial integrity of Ghana. �And the likes of Kennedy Agyepong� what are they talking about?...there will be no Rwanda, there will be no Afghanistan, and Ghana will remain strong and nobody will take away what we have as Ghanaians�let Akufo-Addo dare, let him dare and let him dare,� he warned again. The President, in recent times, has been warning trouble makers without mentioning names. But Koku said all along, President Mills� warnings were directed at Nana Akufo-Addo for his �all die be die� comment. NPP MP for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, had earlier said President Atta Mills was hiding behind Koku to make the damning statement threatening the main opposition leader.He said President Mills behaved hypocritically when it came to issues concerning threatening and violent political language. �If he really means peace and as he claims everywhere that he is for peace, he has to condemn his guards�President Mills should come out clean. He hides behind these boys�he is as wicked as anybody. Nobody should believe him.� Mr. Agyapong charged. He called those asking for his arrest by the BNI as �fools�. He, however, singled out Alfred Woyome, who claimed to be a financier of the party, as a �stupid fool� for daring to call for his arrest. Ken said rather President Mills should be arrested first. He said it was time to tell the NDC to the face what Ghanaians thought of them.