The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Mr Malik Kweku Baako has chided the former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Arthur Kennedy for wrongfully associating him with former President Rawlings and the erstwhile Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). He said Dr Kennedy’s charge that “Mr. Baako and his friends were drinking in the pseudo-Marxist ranting of Rawlings et al in the 1980’s, ” was unsustainable and false, arguing that he (Kweku Baako) was never an adherent of the PNDC. Dr Kennedy in reaction to reports that Mr Baako had made uncharitable remarks about his book, titled “Chasing the Elephant into the Bush with a rider THE POLITICS OF COMPLACENCY,” which takes an introspection of the party’s failed attempt to retain power, and chronicles activities and events in the build up to the election, wrote a response in which he did not take Mr Baako’s comments lightly. Mr Baako had been quoted as saying the timing of the release of the book was “politically immature – he would later clarify that he used the word premature- and inexpedient” but the author disagreed asking “When would be the best time to write the book? 2012? 2016? 2060? Referring to Arthur K’s comments that “Even while Mr. Baako and his friends were drinking in the pseudo-Marxist ranting of Rawlings et al in the 1980’s, I knew better. I knew it was a futile ideology that would lead Ghana nowhere and I stood against it. Our history has fully borne out my maturity and his immaturity on that issue,” Malik Baako said by the time Arthur K. and his colleagues were demonstrating against the PNDC, he was in jail.