The steamy romance between ace broadcaster Nana Aba Anamoah and host of the Super Morning Show on Joy FM Kojo Yankson continues to grow and heat up, and somehow, the couple is doing a very poor job at hiding it. “It almost appears to be a deliberate attempt to subtly let the cat out of the bag”, a gossiper has told GhanaCelebrities.Com.
As promised, we have continued to monitor the developments between the two and have made some interesting observations in recent times.
First, not a single day goes by without Nana Aba and Kojo exchanging tweets and retweeting each other. Some of the tweets are playful and benign, others are flirtatious in such a subtle way that most people wouldn’t pick up on it.
But the most interesting observation is the choice of pet names for each other; a show of love and affection.
Kojo calls Nana Aba by the name Mawuena. That is how her name is stored on his cell phone. Nana Aba’s mother is an Ewe and this explains why she has that name. Interestingly, not even those closest to Nana Aba call her Mawuena. But somehow that is the pet name Kojo has adopted for his new babe. From Nana Aba’s own son, to her mother, to her siblings, to her close family and friends, most of them call her “Ro”, a short form of her English name Rosemond. Others call her either Nana or Aba or Nana Aba. But for obvious reasons her new loverboy calls her by the special name, Mawuena.
For the record, Kojo Yankson has a thing for pet names. He refers to his wife Pamela as Pam or Pammy and his main girlfriend Kyerewa Attakrah of April Rust fame as “Kyerie”. He also refers to his other side chick, actress Lydia Forson, as “apple pie”. This is clear throughout their social media exchanges where they refer to each other as “apple pie”.
It appears however that Kojo even does a better job at hiding their romantic involvement than Nana Aba. Nana Aba is in such awe of Kojo that she can’t help but give up various hints about their sexual relationship. Indeed it was one of such hints that provided the raw material for this story.
Nana Aba also has a pet name for Kojo; she calls him Jonathan or JY (for Jonathan Yankson). One would ask where from that name, as Kojo Yankson is not known to bear an English name. Therein lies the story!
So a few weeks ago, Kojo Yankson gave to Nana Aba a copy of his book “Messages from the Morning Man” which he authored sometime last year or so. Nana Aba, like a hapless teenager in love, instantly took to Instagram to announce this and encourage others to patronise her sweetheart’s book. This is what she posted:
It was from reading this book that Nana Aba discovered the name Jonathan and decided to choose that for her new babe. This book contains articles written by Kojo and read every morning on his radio show. The particular article that influenced Nana Aba’s decision to call her lover Jonathan was released by Kojo Yankson on the 2nd of November 2015. This is the link to the article.
In this article, Kojo laments about how growing up he wished he had an English name like his sisters Jenny and Jean Yankson. For this reason, he chose one for himself – Jonathan! He says he continued to refer to himself as Jonathan Kojo Yankson during his childhood until he overcame that phase. Having keenly read her sweetheart’s book, Nana Aba has decided that in order to differentiate herself from Kojo’s other friends and girlfriends, she will lovingly refer to him as Jonathan.
It is also a sly way to avoid people knowing who she is referring to on social media when she makes a statement with the name Jonathan or the initials JY.