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News went viral when it was reported that an elephant from a forest reserve on the Ghana-Burkina Faso border, has pulled down a 2012 campaign bill board of President John Mahama in the Ghanaian village of Bagli in the Laura Nandom area. The alleged wreckage by the elephant left residents and spiritualists reading superstitious meanings into the incident because the opposition New Patriotic Party�s logo is an elephant. Some spiritualists consider it as a forerunner of how the election petition case will pan out at the Supreme Court, whilst others have simply brushed it aside as a mere accident on the part of the raiding elephants. But an eyewitness to the incident has told Okay FM that there is no iota of truth in the rumor. He claims that though the animals made their way to the village, they never went berserk nor caused any damage to the president�s billboard. The witness, who disclosed his name as Mahmoud Afandi, flatly denied the story and added that as at the time the elephants appeared in the area, there were more than five thousand people present to catch a glimpse of them. Any doubting Thomas �who wants to get the facts of the matter can visit Bagli, the billboard is still mounted as it has been; nothing has happened to it�, he said. According to him, when the animals got closer to President Mahama�s billboard, they stood by it and showed �love� to the picture. He tasked all not to read superstitious meanings into the incidence since all who were present saw the animals admiring the picture of President Mahama for several hours after they had attempted to bring that of Nana Addo down. �Even, at the extreme left of the road, there is an NPP billboard mounted there �one of the elephant was pushing the other to cause damage to it but there was some sort of resistance for sometime, until they both gave up and came closer to that of John Mahama�, he added.