Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second term at the just concluded Presidential election with a clear victory.
The country’s electoral commission announced on Wednesday that Nana Akufo Addobeat his opponent John Mahama.
Akufo-Addo of the centre-right New Patriotic Party (NPP) received 6,730,413 or 51.59 percent of votes while Mahama who was onece President and of the centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) received 6,214,889 or 47.36 percent of votes, the commission’s chairperson Jean Adukwei Mensa said.
Thank you Ghana for voting 4More! #ThankYouGhana pic.twitter.com/DaWN7LnlRv
— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) December 9, 2020
Parliamentary results for the country’s 275 constituencies are yet to be announced, but are expected to be very close. Both parties are contesting some of the provisional results.
Mahama, 62, and Akufo-Addo, 76, are old rivals who have faced off at the ballot box twice before.
Mahama was president for four years until 2016, before being succeeded by Akufo-Addo. Both of those elections were determined by small margins.
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