{"id":275732,"date":"2016-12-10T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=275732"},"modified":"2016-12-10T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T08:00:25","slug":"ghelections-nana-addo-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=275732","title":{"rendered":"#GhElections: Nana Akufo-Addo overcomes, sweeps 6 regions to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate,\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo, is the next president of the Republic of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, declared Nana Akufo-Add0 President-elect on Friday evening making him the fifth president of Ghana\u2019s fourth republic.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Flagbearer, aged 72, secured the Presidency at the third time of asking beating the incumbent, President John Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama becomes the first incumbent to lose a presidential election since Ghana returned to multi-party democracy in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Flagbearer had already acknowledged the concession of five of his six contenders some 36 hours to the official declaration of results by the EC.<\/p>\n<p>The Candidates of the People&#8217;s National Convention (PNC),\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Edward Mahama, the National Democratic\u00a0Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the Progressive People&#8217;s Party (PPP),\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Papa Kwesi Nduom and the independent candidate, Jacob Osei Yeboah, all called him to concede the election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/54208372-42f8-4673-806b-abb4f00b4d9a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/54208372-42f8-4673-806b-abb4f00b4d9a.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama, Asiedu Nketia\" width=\"602\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama has conceded defeat to Nana Akufo-Addo in a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo secured 53.8 percent votes beating incumbent president, John Dramani Mahama to win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, Nana Addo said he will serve all Ghanaians &#8220;without discrimination, malice, or ill-will to any ethnic or political or religious affiliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate,\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo, is the next president of the Republic of Ghana. The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, declared Nana Akufo-Add0 President-elect on Friday evening making him the fifth president of Ghana\u2019s fourth republic. The NPP Flagbearer, aged 72, secured the Presidency at the third time of asking beating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":275743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[2402,2356,3,14179,14180,56],"class_list":["post-275732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-charlotte-osei-electoral-commission-of-ghana","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama-loses","tag-nana-addo-wins","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}