In the last 24 hours, a publication from the Daily Post newspaper has been circulating on social media which claims among other things that the flagbearer for the NPP-Nana Akufo Addo killed his first wife, per an autopsy report.
Akufo Addo in a statement has described the wild allegation leveled against him as “nothing but a vile, repugnant and tasteless fabrication.”
A statement signed by the NPP’s press secretary-Eugene Arhin condemned the publication, saying;
The attention of the Office of Nana Akufo-Addo has been drawn, once again, to a false and defamatory publication in the Daily Post newspaper of Wednesday, January 27, 2015.
The story, whose headline has been written under the guise of a question and allegedly sourced from a non-existent newspaper called the ‘New Patriot’, states emphatically that Nana Akufo-Addo murdered his first wife, Obaa Yaa Nkansah Dwamena, on 17th August, 1993.
It is tragic that our politics should sink to such levels that there appears to be nothing sacred, nor any respect for our cultural values in our society; and people would want to use the death of a loved one to defame a political opponent.
This story is nothing but a vile, repugnant and tasteless fabrication. We demand an unconditional and immediate retraction of story in the next edition of the paper, which comes out on Thursday, January 28, 2015. This retraction must be given the same prominence as was given to the earlier story.