BREAKING: Akufo-Addo re-elected as Ghana’s president

BY Victoria Ogunrinde

Incumbent President of Ghana, Akufo-Addo polled 6,730,413 votes (51.59 per cent) against his opponent, Mr Mahama’s 6,240,889 (47.36%).

President Nana Akufo-Addo has won the 2020 presidential election in Ghana, defeating his closest challenger and former president John Mahama.

Mr Akufo-Addo, who contested on the platform of the New Patriotic Party, won in eight of the 16 regions while Mr Mahama who contested on the platform of the National Democratic Congress, won in the other eight.

Jean Mensah, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, said the final results were without that of Techiman South because it was being contested. She, however, added that the total votes in the constituency is 128,018 and will not change the outcome of the result.

By the power vested in me as the returning officer, it is my duty to announce Nana Akufo-Addo as the president-elect of Ghana, she said.

There was no representative of the NDC at the electoral commission headquarters.

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