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| Ghanaian President elect, Nana Akufo-Addo |
Ghanaians have elected Nana Akufo-Addo, the candidate of the main
opposition party, New Patriotic Party, NPP, as their new president.
Mr. Akufo-Addo, 72, who was running for the office for the third
time, comfortably edged out incumbent, John Mahama of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) by almost 10 points.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana (ECG) tweeted late on Friday, two
days after the election, that Mr. Akufo-Addo was the victor in the
largely peaceful poll.
“We declare Nana Akufo-Addo as President-Elect of our Ghana. God bless Ghana. Thank you,” ECG tweeted.
A breakdown of the result showed that NPP won 53.85 percent of total vote cast while the ruling party managed to score just 44.4 percent of the votes.
The announcement confirmed the projections of local media, which have
predicted from provisional results and result collated from polling
stations that the opposition candidate was on course to unseating the
incumbent.
Clearly, Mr Mahama, 58, couldn’t sway enough voters with several
infrastructural projects it was building all over the country, as voters
were more concerned about worsening power cuts, dwindling economic
growth in the resource-rich country, and the his inability to rein in
corrupt officials.
Mr. Akufo-Addo, a former foreign minister, has made the country’s worsening corruption the focus of his campaign.
Friday evening, Mr. Akufo-Addo, tweeted that Mr. Mahama has called to congratulate him on his election victory.
The challenge before Mr. Akufo-Addo is how to achieve some of his
mouth watering campaign promises, some of which critics have described
as unrealistic. During the campaign, he promised to create jobs through
the establishment of at least one factory in every district in the
country.
He criticised the incumbent for centering most of its development
plans in Accra and Kumasi, the two biggest cities in the country.
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