The Office of Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has dismissed reports circulating on social media that the 84-year-old has died.

According to his spokesperson, Dr. Kwabena Osei-Adubofour, the Second John of the Fourth Republic “is very much alive and well.”

The Office in a statement available to Metro TV further urged persons purveying such wicked untruths rumours to desist from the act.

“The Office of Former President John Kufuor has, over the past several days, been inundated with persistent rumours of the supposed passing away of Former President John Kufuor.”

“We wish to categorically deny such an occurrence and state emphatically that the former president is very much alive and well.

“We, therefore, urge the general public to disabuse their minds of these malicious and uncanny rumours that spring out of nothing.”

“The office further urges those who may be behind the propagation of such wicked untruths to desist from them henceforth; there have been far too many.”

“We can only speculate that the perpetrators do so out of mischief-making and possibly for unfathomable political purposes.”

Find the full statement below:

Reports of the demise of Former President John Agyekum Kufuor are false

The Office of Former President John Kufuor has, over the past several days, been inundated with persistent rumours of the supposed passing away of Former President John Kufuor.

We wish to categorically deny such an occurrence and state emphatically that the former president is very much alive and well.

We, therefore, urge the general public to disabuse their minds of these malicious and uncanny rumours that spring out of nothing.

The office further urges those who may be behind the propagation of such wicked untruths to desist from them henceforth; there have been far too many.

We can only speculate that the perpetrators do so out of mischief-making and possibly for unfathomable political purposes.

We pray for God’s continuous blessings on our former president.