President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the aboriginal time has burst his blackout on the "Agyapadie" book which has been in circula­tion for some time now, describ­ing it as the better artifact deployed to mar his angel and believability for balloter purposes

According to him, he has been the ambition of abundant apocryphal and awful belief aimed at attack­ing his believability and candor over the years and the "Agyap­adie" certificate was the contempo attack to accomplish same

The certificate which aboriginal sur­faced in the advance up to the 2020 accepted election, had begin its way aback into the accessible apple and accept been in apportionment for some time now

President Akufo-Addo (left) exchanging pleasantries with Lt Col Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd), above National Security Coordinator, afterwards the aboriginal affair of the programme Photo: Victor A. Buxton Purported to accept been authored by abutting assembly of the President, the book outlines a well-documented arrangement of activities formed out to addendum accompaniment assets for the acceptable of the President, his actual ancestors and indigenous group. However, speaking at the aperture of The Ghana Report Acme in Accra yesterday, the President said the certificate was a bogus anecdotal anxiously put out there by his opponents to attenuate his political career

The acme organised by I-Zar was on the theme: "Dealing with Misinformation and Disinforma­tion - Acclamation 2024," and high­lighted the dangers of affected news, misinformation and disinforma­tion on the country's autonomous process

President Akufo-Addo explained that he remained the distinct baby-kisser in the country whose political career had been abounding with battery of unfound­ed allegations and accusations all to abort his integrity

Recounting his expe­rience with misinformation and disinformation, he said disinfor­mation campaigns generally exploited civic capacity and amplified absolute tensions while assuming a accident to amusing cohesion

"We accept witnessed how such campaigns can abet abandon and agitate accessible order, as apparent in added genitalia of the world. In the countdown to the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections, I was the ambition of abundant apocryphal and awful belief aimed at attack­ing my believability and integrity

In 2008, bottomless allegations of biologic trafficking were spread, forth with abundant rumours about my health, advised to casting agnosticism on my adeptness to serve as President. President Kufuor was additionally accused in 2008 of accepting awash all of Ghana's gold reserves. Again, the 2012 elections saw apocryphal letters of my declared arrest in London for biologic control and bogus quotes advised to activity indigenous tensions. In 2016, it was declared by sympathisers of the action that I had dead my backward wife," he said

In addition, he said "Today, with a few months to the Decem­ber 2024 elections, they are at it again. A bogus document, advantaged "Agyapadie" is actuality ped­dled about by agents of the action as affirmation of a admirable arrangement by my affair to addendum the state, the assets of the state." The Ga Mantse, King Tackie TeikoTsuru II, emphasised the accent of this year's elections in the ambience of Africa's demo­cratic development

He said elections were a analytical allotment of deepening autonomous institutions and architecture airy babyminding structures, abacus that "The accessible elections are not aloof about allotment leaders; they are about acknowledging our commit­ment to capitalism and the ethics we authority dear." To this end the Ga Mantse alleged on all stakeholders to comedy their roles effectively, to ensure chargeless and fair elections, abacus that "The Police Service and the Balloter Commission should advance their candor and up­hold their duties." The National Security Minister, Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, said mis­information and bamboozlement could actualize adverse perceptions and ammunition capacity in the country

The Chief Executive of I-Zar, Ms Rashida Saani, said "Misinfor­mation and bamboozlement under­mine our autonomous processes, abrade accessible trust, and destabilise society." She explained that the ambition of the acme was to analyze strat­egies to abode these threats and ensure that the balloter action charcoal cellophane and credible

BY CLIFF EKUFUL & AGNES OPOKU SARPONG