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A Presidential Aide has dismissed as mere propaganda a publication by the �New Statesman� newspaper which sought to create the impression that ex-President Rawlings has once again rebuffed attempts at reconciliation by driving away from his residence... ...a delegation sent from the presidency to confer with him (Rawlings). The newspaper published that a delegation sent by the President, John Evans Atta Mills and his Vice, John Mahama to seek audience with the founder ostensibly to propose a meeting between the three personalities was literally thrown out of the founder�s premises as he bluntly refused to meet them after finding out what their intention was. But Nii Lantey Vanderpuiye, in an interview with Shamima Muslim on CitiFM stated: �I don�t think I would have wished to comment on the publication in the New Statesman but for the respect I have for your station and your programme, because I don�t think the paper has ever published anything factual about the president. That is a propaganda paper from Nana Akufo Addo�s camp and so they will continue to fabricate stories like that. We know their agenda of trying to create seeds of discord between the presidency and the former first family...,� he said. He was emphatic that to the best of his knowledge no delegation from the presidency has been sent to the former first family�s house, adding that if President Mills wants to meet with the former first family, he will not send a delegation but will rather go himself or find other means of doing so himself. �I am not aware� knowing President Mills for who he is, he would rather call and say I want us to meet, I want us to talk�. but I know there has been a lot of talk�,� he added.