A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko,has slammed critics for spreading rumours that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been hospitalized.

According to the founder of the Danquah Institute, the president was at the 37 Military hospital over the weekend only to visit his hopitalised in-law and nothing else.

Rumours spread over the weekend that Nana Akufo-Addo had critically taken ill and had been rushed to the military health post for treatment.

In a tweet to debunk the news, the editor of the New Statesman Newspaper, said the president is well and preparing for work today, Monday, 22 October 2018.

“So, the president cannot visit a hospitalised in-law at 37 without false speculations? Visit is done. He is home. Doing what he knows best: preparing for work in the morning,” the tweet said.