{"id":275441,"date":"2016-12-09T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=275441"},"modified":"2016-12-09T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:58:16","slug":"nana-addo-wins-captures-presidency-in-historic-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/nana-addo-wins-captures-presidency-in-historic-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo wins: Captures presidency in historic victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Electoral Commission (EC), has declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, the winner of\u00a0the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n
The NPP Flagbearer finally secured the presidency after the\u00a0third time of asking, beating the incumbent, President John Mahama.<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo rode on the back 53.85 percent of the valid votes cast to become Ghana’s fifth president under the fourth Republic.<\/p>\n
President Mahama, who ran on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), secured 44.40 of valid votes cast.<\/p>\n
President Mahama\u2019s defeat makes him the first incumbent to lose an election since Ghana returned to multi-party democracy in 1992.<\/p>\n
The NPP Flagbearer had already acknowledged the concession of five of six other contenders some 48 hours to the official declaration of results by the EC.<\/p>\n
The candidates of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, the National Democratic\u00a0Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and the independent candidate, Jacob Osei Yeboah, all called him to concede the election.<\/p>\n
These five candidates all secured 1.76 percent of votes cast.<\/p>\n
15, 712, 499 persons were registered to vote in this election across 28, 992 polling stations across the 275 constituencies. Figures from the EC indicate that the election saw a turnout of<\/p>\n
He is the second candidate to have won the presidency after contesting for the third time. The late President John Atta Mills also won the seat on the third ask.<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo comes from a rich political heritage with three of the iconic Big Six, the founding fathers of Ghana, being his relatives.<\/p>\n
They were J. B. Danquah, his grand-uncle; William Ofori-Atta, his uncle and Edward Akufo-Addo, the third Chief Justice of Ghana and later the ceremonial President of the Republic from 1969 to 1972 as his father.<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo himself, aged 72, has already served Ghana as the Attorney General and then as Foreign Minister in the John Kufuor-led NPP government from 2000 to 2008.<\/p>\n
Unlike the 2012 election campaign where the Nana Akufo-Addo and his party campaigned on a platform of educational reform with the free SHS promise, the Nana Akufo-Addo’s campaign for the presidency was on the back of a promise address unemployment and job creation with the NPP’s 2016 manifesto themed “Change: An agenda for jobs”.<\/p>\n
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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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The Electoral Commission (EC), has declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, the winner of\u00a0the 2016 elections. The NPP Flagbearer finally secured the presidency after the\u00a0third time of asking, beating the incumbent, President John Mahama. Nana Akufo-Addo rode on the back 53.85 percent of the valid votes cast to become Ghana’s fifth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":275721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[2402,2356,3,14179,14180,56],"yoast_head":"\n