Ghanaian actor Prince David Osei has addressed backlash over a deleted post from his X account (formerly Twitter), which referred to President-Elect John Dramani Mahama as a "drunkard."

The post was reportedly a reply to a user who had made an unpleasant comment about the actor. Speaking with Andy Dosty on Hitz FM, Prince denied responsibility for the offensive remark, stating that he was not the one who made the post.

Prince has since apologised to the President-Elect and expressed regret over the incident.

"After the election, we were all pained and sort of depressed because we were surprised at the outcome, but all the same, I came out to congratulate the NDC and the President-Elect. I even posted him, and I said what I had to say: elections are over, and we should all learn to live in peace. Then I started getting a lot of attacks on Twitter," he said.

He said due to the pain from the disappointment, he did not carry his phones with him.

"So I even left the phone. I wasn't by my phone. Normally when they start bullying and doing all that stuff, I just leave the phones to my cousins or some of my friends," Prince said on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM.

He said he was surprised when he woke up to see reports that he had insulted the president.

"I went on my Twitter feed to check where that was coming from. I noticed there was nothing like that, but I saw people tagging me in something written by me on my page. Then I said no, I didn't write this. I started asking my cousins and friends, and then they said, Oh, people were annoying them, so they were replying to them. Then I asked if anybody tagged them in any of those tweets, and they said no. But I could see people sharing it on Facebook from Prince David Osei's Twitter feed.

Because it was coming from my page, I came out to apologise and said I was sorry because people were calling my phone consistently with death threats," he said.

Prince David Osei explained that although his cousins and friends have denied posting the comment referring to John Mahama as a "drunkard," he suspects they might have made the posts in reaction to provocations from X users who were attacking him online.

"I think when they responded to the person, they deleted it," he noted.