Former President John Mahama has backed out of the state bungalow he requested to keep as part of his retirement package.

He withdrew the request after a furious public outcry, saying his interest in the facility is threatening to "mar" the beauty of the transition.

“Today [Saturday] was the final day for him and his family to vacate that premises and that was done by close of day and it shows he is not the kind of person that lacks a place of abode. He has finally packed out of the government bungalow and his now living at his private residence,” the Greater Accra Regional organizer of the NDC Anthony Nukpenu has confirmed in a broadcast.

“For a person of his nomenclature he has several personal buildings that he occupies but for now I know he is living around the Kawukudi enclave which is around the Gold House and that is where he will be residing for the moment until further notice,” he told Accra-based Citi FM.

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The bungalow serves as the official residence of Ghana's vice presidents but Mahama's refusal to vacate the building left the current vice president stranded.

The former president has denied claims that he has refused to vacate his official residence to allow the current vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to occupy it.

Mahama said the reports are “mischievous” and are only meant to "embarrass" him when he had formally informed the incoming administration through his former chief of staff Julius Debrah to continue staying in the house.

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"The claims that Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia is stranded and has nowhere to stay is mischievous and deliberately intended to embarrass President Mahama.