Akufo-Addo is winner of 2020 elections
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party’s ‘4 more to do more’ dream has become a reality as the Electoral Commission has declared the candidate winner of the December 7, 2020, presidential polls.
At a press conference at the Commission’s headquarters in Accra to announce the results of the presidential poll which was a re-election push for incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo and former president John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Electoral Commissioner, Jean Mensa declared that the president has been retained.
Nana Akufo-Addo polled 6,730,413, representing 51.595% while John Mahama garnered 6, 214, 889 representing 47.366% in the 8th election in the 4th Republic that had a dozen candidates.
According to the Electoral Commission (EC), Mahama polled a total of 6,214,889 votes representing 47.36% while President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won 6,730,413 representing 51.59% of the total valid votes.
Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Commission, said at a press conference that the total results did not include figures from the Techiman South.
The EC chairperson stated that, the analysis from available data indicates that the results will not change after full compilation hence her decision to declare the NPP candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner.
The NPP candidate in 2016 polled 5,755,758 of the valid votes representing 53.8% to beat the then-President, John Dramani Mahama who had 4,771,188 votes representing 44.4%.
This was after John Dramani Mahama had won the 2012 general election with 50.7 per cent, a little over 300,000 votes.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had to challenged Mahama’s victory at the Supreme Court.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com
