Speaking in a Telephone interview with Radio Gold’s James Agyenim Boateng on the station’s newspaper review programme known as the Gold Paper Review, Prof. Mills asserted that “I have never had surgery in my life.”

Prof. Mills made the disclosure when the station called him to react to a publication in the Vanguard newspaper that feverish preparations were being made to send Prof. Mills to South Africa for “another bout of surgery”. But Prof. Mills debunked the story, and asserted very clearly that he has “never had surgery in his life”.

“I was at Fomena over the weekend where I was on my feet for close to eleven hours. I wonder what the people of Fomena, who I addressed, would say if they hear of this publication. I believe the editor of the paper owes me an apology,” Prof. Mills stated.

The publication in the Vanguard newspaper, one of the newspapers clandestinely operated by the NPP’s Francis Poku and his National Security Ministry, also sought to sow seeds of discord in the NDC by attributing certain statements and observations to some members of the erstwhile Spio Campaign Team. The Ghanaian Lens has for some time now been aware of some of the moves by Francis Poku and his operatives to sow seeds of discord in the NDC.

In one particular case, a journalist working with one of the TV stations in the capital city was used to feed false information to one of the losing contestants that the votes at the NDC congress were rigged against him. Fortunately, the particular losing contestant saw through the ruse and rather exposed the move to close associates and confidantes.

Unable to get through to that contestant so as to get him to, as it were, rock the NDC, the NPP, through Francis Poku and his National Security Ministry, devised other strategies.

One such strategy was to get some members of Obed Asamoah’s DFP to reach out to some members of the campaign teams of the losing candidates with a view to luring them to announce their defection from the NDC so as to shatter the solid image that the people of Ghana have come to have of the NDC as a united party that is at peace with itself.

Again, this plan also failed miserably, as the various persons approached declined to be part of such nefarious moves against their beloved NDC. Desperate to cause confusion in the NDC, the NPP, through Francis Poku and his operatives have now resorted to attributing things that they hope would provoke supporters of Prof. Mills against members of the erstwhile Spio campaign team, and therefore generate acrimony and bad blood in the NDC.

The Ghanaian Lens can reveal that this latest ploy has also failed as miserably as all the other ploys, as the mood in Mills camp was one of scorn against the NPP and Francis Poku for stooping to these depraved levels in their efforts to sow seeds of discord in the NDC.

An aide to Prof. Mills, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, yesterday told The Ghanaian Lens that “we have no doubt that this is another of the ploys by the NPP and their agents to cause confusion in the NDC, and we are not in the least perturbed by it.”

“They can say whatever they like but truth shall always prevail over falsehood,” Nii Lantey Vanderpuije stated.