A photo of President Nana Akufo-Addo standing on a podium designed with the Ghana flags has gone viral.

One activists, Stephen Dela Atsu wrote: "These are the legs of Ghana's president His Excellent Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo standing on our NATIONAL FLAG. The president cannot even dignify the symbol that signifies the country he is a head of."

Nyarko-Adu Kojo Danso wrote: "Ghana flag is now a stage carpet. Our proud Flag as a Republic!!! This is sad! I am angry! How can you insult our country this way."

And another wrote: "This is total disrespect to the flag of Ghana... Is our President a citizen or a spectator?

Such a SHAMEFUL MISTAKE!"

But supporters of the president have pushed back hard against the criticism, saying the president did not step on the flag.

A lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Mustapha Hameed, said the president was standing on a rostrum decorated with a red cloth on top and the Ghana flag by the sides.

He blasted the NDC activists as "people with huge intellectual deficits" who are suffering from "colour blindness."

Another Akufo-Addo supported provided a clearer photo showing the president standing on top of a red carpet and not the Ghana flag.

"NDC propaganda...it happened in Takoradi the President wasn't on the flag. It was a decor," Baffour Okyere wrote.