Ghana’s former President HE John Agyekum Kufuor has denied malicious media reports suggesting he has endorsed the Presidential dreams of current Vice President, Dr Mahamud Bawumia.
Media reports went viral suggesting that John Agyekum Kufuor has endorsed HE Dr Mahamud Bawumia as his preferred candidate to lead the New Patriotic Party to the 2024 General Elections.
In a strongly worded communique issued by the office of the former President and signed by his side Dr Kwabena Osei Adubufuor, the revered statesman called on the party machinery to stay away from internal machination in the supreme interest of the party.
At a reception at the Peduase Lodge Hotel on Fathers Day, also attended by he Vice President,
President Kufuor described all the aspirants as his children and that the party must try as much as possible to avoid swinging the political pendulum if in favour of any of the aspirants if they have the party at heart.
The statement said in part: “this office wants to emphatically deny that no such endorsement took place on the said occasion and bemoans the facts that what transpired has been seriously misconstrued”.
The statement further cautioned the party against political concoctions in the larger interest of the herculean break the eight agenda.
The full statement is seen attached.
