The office of the 2012 Presidential candidate of the NPP has denied reports that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has undergone heart Surgery in the United Kingdom.
A Ghanaian-German Politician, Anthony Rau, claimed in an interview with Radio XYZ that Nana Akufo-Addo has been warned by his Doctor to quit politics on health grounds.
The Hamburg-based international human rights Activist claimed that the twice-defeated presidential candidate recently had a heart surgery in London, which prompted the warning from his Doctor.
But the spokesperson of Nana Akufo-Addo has denied the claims describing it as a complete lie by an “eccentric fellow”.
Below is the full statement from Nana Addo’s office
The Office of Nana Akufo-Addo has read with total dismay an interview granted to an eccentric fellow, Anthony Rau of Germany, by Radio XYZ of Accra and carried on the worldwide web today, November 25, 2013.
We write to state categorically that Nana Akufo-Addo has not undergone any heart surgery as falsely speculated by the eccentric Mr Rau.
It can only be a complete and utter lie the story by Mr Rau that he spoke to a close associate of the Akufo-Addos on this fabricated matter.
Nana Akufo-Addo is currently in England and has been seen week in and week out at public functions, including attending events in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France during his stay out of Ghana.
He is also using his period out of Ghana to work on a book he is proposing to launch in 2015.
One would have hoped that this culture of some media houses giving people the free range to spread totally false stories about Nana Akufo-Addo without any iota of evidence was long spent.
We urge the people of Ghana to disregard this as yet another baseless publication against Nana Akufo-Addo.
He is in good health and will be returning to Ghana shortly.
......Signed...... Mustapha Hamid Spokesperson to Nana Akufo-Addo
