President Akufo-Addo has laughed off rumours on social media which suggested he had been hospitalized at the 37 Military Hospital on Sunday.

“Some of you may be surprised to see me here this morning,” he said, in reference to the rumours of his alleged collapse.

“I did not collapse, I went to visit my brother-in-law,” he said at a National Cyber Security Awareness Month in Accra Monday.

According to the 74-year-old President, he had gone there to visit famous pilot Captain Powis Spencer. The one-time defunct Ghana Airways pilot had had a hip operation at the hospital.

But the President said he rather read reports of him being prepared to be flown abroad to seek health attention.

“Those whose political fortunes depend on my ill health and degeneration, all I can say is we are all in the hands of the Almighty,” he said.

The issue of the health of the country’s presidents was a major issue during the 2016 election campaign after the death in office of Johnn Evans Atta Mills in 2012.

The health status of then-candidate Akufo-Addo was topical after reports by a US-based Africawatch Magazine that the doctor for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer reportedly said his client was sick with acute cancer and kidney problems.
His doctor, Prof Adu Gyamfi, told Joy News the magazine’s report was only a fabrication and a figment of someone's imagination.