Three party cards produced to disown Kelvin Taylor fail authenticity audits
By Stanley Assor
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been thrown onto the defensive by its own attempt to disown Kelvin Ekow Taylor. Three party cards, produced to prove that the outspoken commentator is an impostor, have failed authenticity checks. All bear the same polling station details but different names and faces. The affair is now less about Taylor’s membership than about the integrity of the NPP’s membership records.
The cards purport to identify the original bearer in the Obuasi East constituency branch. Two bear the name Anamde Anamde but carry photographs of two different men. A third bears the name Eric Nana Boakye Yiadom, with a third photograph.
Yet all three list the same party member ID, AS173810000024K, and the same card number, 0244171. All list Padmore J.H. S Center as the polling station, Obuasi East as the constituency and Ashanti as the region.
Taylor’s card, which he says was signed by former General Secretary John Boadu, carries the same details. Boadu served from 2018 to 2022. The NPP has not explained how four different people can share one party card.
The New Republic subjected the cards to AI-based reverse image searches. The results were damaging.
The card bearing the name Eric Nana Boakye Yiadom was flagged as fake because its photograph is in black and white. NPP cards from the Boadu era, including the one Taylor has produced, bear colour pictures.
The two Anamde Anamde cards were tested separately. Anamde Anamde (1), showing a man in a white shirt, was flagged as fake because the subject is posed in profile, apparently taking a selfie. The background appears to be a grocery store shelf, not the plain grey background used on the other cards.
Anamde Anamde (2) is the card the NPP has been flaunting as the original that Taylor supposedly faked. The man is pictured in black-and-white African wear. The background is grey, like Taylor’s, but grainier. When the image was run through TinEye, the platform reported that after cross-checking 85.9 billion images, it could find no match.
“TinEye searched over 85.9 billion images but didn’t find any matches for your search image,” the platform reported. Repeated searches returned the same result. The strong indication is that the man on the card does not exist.
By contrast, TinEye promptly confirmed Taylor’s card. It generated four other images of him, provided Facebook links to the ID card, and reported that it first indexed the photo on 5 November 2025.
TinEye also failed to confirm the authenticity of the photographs of Anamde Anamde (1) and Eric Nana Boakye Yiadom.
The NPP’s General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua, has publicly touted the Anamde Anamde (2) card as the original being impersonated by Taylor. He has not explained the discrepancies.
The name itself is suspect. “Anamde Anamde” does not appear to be a recognised traditional Ghanaian name from any major language group, including Akan, Ewe, Ga-Dangme, Dagbani, Dagaare, Gonja, Nzema and Fante. The combination of a non-Ghanaian name and a conjured photograph suggests the card is a fabrication.
Yet Anamde Anamde himself has not emerged to clear the air. Instead, NPP assigns appear to be busy producing different versions of his supposed party ID card.
For the NPP, the row is awkward. It had hoped to use Taylor’s membership to undermine his credibility in the debate over political insults. Instead, the party’s own documents are under scrutiny. The affair also feeds long-standing allegations that the NPP pads electoral registers in its Ashanti stronghold with ghost names.
The NPP has yet to provide a coherent explanation for the duplicate cards. Until it does, its attempt to disown Kelvin Taylor will remain a case of the pot calling the kettle black.