Breaking: Nana Akufo-Addo reelected Ghana president

Incumbent Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo has been declared the winner of the December 7 presidential election. 

The head of Ghana Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa announced that Akufo-Addo is re-elected president having won 51.59% of the votes. 

“By the power vested in me as the returning officer, it is my duty to announce Nana Akufo-Addo as the president-elect of Ghana, Mensa said

Akufo-Addo who contested on the platform of the New Patriotic Party defeated former president, John Mahama by polling 6,730,413 votes (51.59 per cent) to  Mahama’s 6,240,889 votes (47.36 per cent).

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