Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Emmanuel Victor Smith, has debunked reports in sections of the media that he is harbouring presidential ambition and working behind the scenes to prepare himself for the 2020 presidential elections.

Speaking with Accra-based Oman FM Tuesday, Mr. Victor Smith said the story has no iota of truth in it and that the Daily Guide newspaper has a taste for sensationalism and the peddling of negative and controversial stories.

He adds that the story should be treated with contempt ignored by the public. “I have never said anywhere that I have presidential ambitions. As we speak, I don’t have Presidential ambitions. ”

Victor Smith continued to say that, the paper has always sought to bring him down from the dizzying heights that he has worked so hard to forge. “It is in their mind that any opportunity, Daily Guide seeks to chip of part of my image as a person in a negative way.

He noted that, until he dies, he will continue to serve the country in any capacity that he may deem fit.

The story which was published in the Tuesday’s edition of Daily Guide Newspaper reported the former Eastern Regional Minister and former MP aspirant for Abuakwa North his eyes on the presidency in 2020 and feverishly making preparations towards it.

The story further disclosed that Mr. Smith is buying his way through to the Abuakwah North seat by sending a whooping one million pounds to be doled out to the rank and file of the Constituency to support his endeavor.

Victor Smith laughed off the claims saying the amounted quoted in the story is very outrageous.