President Nana Akufo-Addo has thanked Ghanaians once again for reposing their confidence in him for another four years.
Akufo-Addo won a second four-year term in the Dec. 7 vote, narrowly defeating the NDC’s presidential candidate, former president John Mahama. Mahama has said he will contest the results, which he called “fraudulent”.
But delivering his 20th COVID -19 update, Nana Akufo-Addo said ” we have had a vigorous political campaign season, and elected a President and two hundred and seventy-five (275) Members of Parliament by over thirteen million Ghanaians, across some thirty-eight thousand (38,000) polling stations, by the effective safety protocols put in place by the Electoral Commission.”
Nana Akufo-Addo faces a hung parliament after the opposition clinched the last undeclared seat on Friday, potentially complicating his ability to implement economic measures to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) each won 137 seats, which represent a loss of dozens of NPP seats.
One constituency was won by an independent candidate who was a member of the Party but contested as an Independent candidate after losing the internal election to become a Parliamentary candidate.
In total Akufo-Addo polled 6,730,413 votes whilst NDC’s John Mahama secured 6,214,889 of the total votes cast.
Ghana EC Chairperson, Jean Mensa declare de election results in favor of the NPP candidate who to continue en second term as President of Ghana.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
