President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- has poured cold water on allegations that he has a favourite candidate in the upcoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries.

He stated without mincing words that he is not supporting any of the candidates seeking to lead the NPP into the 2024 elections and that his role as president is to see the elephant family break the eight.

Engaging NPP Communicators at the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo described as “false” and “malicious” claims he is using the government machinery to support Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who is among the ten NPP bigwigs seeking to become the party’s candidate for the 2024 polls.

He, therefore, urged such rumours to be treated with the contempt it deserves because he cannot impose a candidate on the party.

“The assertions by some in the party that government is somehow allegedly ‘intimidating or coercing party faithful to throw their weight or support behind one of the presidential aspirants…the allegation is being made that the government is putting its authority behind the Vice President. I want to say in very clear terms to you and to the world that it is a false and malicious narrative.

“There is not a single truth to it. That is why I can beat my chest to it and I can say without any fear of contradiction that there is no one in the party, there is not a single person in the NPP who can say that I have asked him or her to support this or that aspirant. I haven’t done it and I know why I haven’t done it,” the president is reported to have said.

President Akufo-Addo further stated that his administration had not set out to terminate the contract of any minister or political appointee because they supported a specific aspirant.

“No minister, no deputy minister has been thrown out of his job or even been threatened because of their support for their preferred presidential aspirant,” Akufo-Addo noted.