AFRICA: Nana Akufo-Addo re-elected Ghana President for second term

GHANA President, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election and will now govern for a second term from January 7, 2021, to January 6, 2025.

The nation’s electoral body, Electoral Commission (EC) made the declaration on Wednesday.

Nana Akufo-Addo who contested the election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won with 6,730,413 votes which represents 51.595 per cent of the total valid votes cast.

His closest competitor, John Dramani Mahama from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) got 6,214,889 votes representing 47.366 per cent.

The total valid votes cast was 13, 434,574 representing 79 per cent of the total registered voters.

Declaring the results Wednesday evening, 48 hours after the polls closed, the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa described the elections as “incident-free” and “peaceful.”

She said the technology deployed on Election Day worked efficiently and effectively.

She said the usual hustle and long queues at polling stations in past elections were all absent.