Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential candidate of the opposition
New Patriotic Party (NPP), has won Ghana’s presidential election, defeating
incumbent President John Mahama in a hotly contested election according to
result released by media outlets across the country.
Mr. Akufo-Addo party also triumphed over Mr.
Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC), in parliamentary elections that
also took place throughout Ghana on Wednesday, December 7, 2016.
President Mahama’s bid for reelection was hurt
by widespread voter disaffection with an economy that has stalled and a sense
that the incumbent president had lost touch with everyday Ghanaians.
Mr. Akufo-Addo rode a populist message into
office, promising voters that he would reverse the rot of the past few years of
the NDC’s rule. Results of polls showed that the opposition party capitalized
on Ghanaians’ desire for change to upstage the incumbent President.
The national electoral body has not officially
declared the results, but most Ghanaians have accused the body of complicity as
it has stalled in announced results of the election as widely expected by a
majority of Ghanaians.
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