Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has won Ghana’s presidential election, defeating incumbent President John Mahama in a hotly contested election according to result released by media outlets across the country.

Mr. Akufo-Addo party also triumphed over Mr. Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC), in parliamentary elections that also took place throughout Ghana on Wednesday, December 7, 2016.

President Mahama’s bid for reelection was hurt by widespread voter disaffection with an economy that has stalled and a sense that the incumbent president had lost touch with everyday Ghanaians.

Mr. Akufo-Addo rode a populist message into office, promising voters that he would reverse the rot of the past few years of the NDC’s rule. Results of polls showed that the opposition party capitalized on Ghanaians’ desire for change to upstage the incumbent President.

The national electoral body has not officially declared the results, but most Ghanaians have accused the body of complicity as it has stalled in announced results of the election as widely expected by a majority of Ghanaians.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/08/ghanaian-voters-pick-opposition-candidate-nana-akufo-addo-new-president

Hope he won't act like Buhari.


Our own change is a pure scam...

But how we believe Media Result?

Anything can happen coz I know this is Africa.

let us swapp

Like seriously?

After all the noise and reference the ruling oarty made to Nigeria, including Ffk, the people still made their choice.

The lesson one should take from here is that what informs the people's choice in an election isnt the candidate with the foulest amd funniest tonue, but their anticident. Theyve tasted what the rulling party had to offer and were utterly dissatisfied, hence their change of heart. If the current guy disappoints as well, he should prepare to get the boot..

And so shall we keep changing them until we get uhuru.

Congrats to them.

Congrats to him and all Ghanaians here on Nairaland. Some people will not like him ...




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Ghanaians.... you have your "Change" now.. I can only wish you well.
Seems Africans like "Change"....maybe 2019 will also be "Change" in Nigeria

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All over the world, there's a clamour for change in the affairs of Nations. People are going against the establishment.

Poor NDC, like the PDP counterpart in Edo, rather than campaign amd tell the people what they have done so far with the mandate given to them (in the past), they were busy threatening them with Nigerian version of change.

I guess the people want the change after all.

From Britain, USA, Gambia, Seychelles etc., the opposition all won against the run of play. Lol

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The slogan CHANGE seem to be the real deal here. Buhari came shouting change the masses ended up voting massively without asking the type of change he meant. Next was Trump who took the world by storm Hillary camp are yet to overcome the shock. Ghanaians came out in droves and still queued up for change without also asking the type of change... Conclusively, humans naturally resist change but not political change.

This John Dramani Mahama is just the exact Ghanian version of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan!

John Mahama was the vice to John Atta Mills before Atta Mills died in office and John Mahama succeeded him in 2012. Exactly Umar Yardua and Goodluck Jonathan's incidence.

John Mahama was elected the President in December 2012 for his first tenure. Now he has lost to the opposition while seeking for the mandate for the second tenure to the opposition. Just like Goodluck Jonathan's PDP lost to Mohammadu Buhari's APC.

How else can two people's political fate be so identical than that!

Tolexander:
This John Dramani Mahama is just the exact Ghanian version of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan!

John Mahama was the vice to John Atta Mills before Atta Mills died in office and John Mahama succeeded him in 2012. Exactly Umar Yardua and Goodluck Jonathan's incidence.

John Mahama was elected the President in December 2012 for his first tenure. Now he has lost to the opposition while seeking for the mandate for the second tenure to the opposition. Just like Goodluck Jonathan's PDP lost to Mohammadu Buhari's APC.

How else can two people's political fate be so identical than that!

and he contested for the fourth time just like Buhari

Elections are becoming somewhat predictable; The opposition wins it all.

2016 The year of opposition parties.

mmb:
and he contested for the fourth time just like Buhari

nope bro, Buhari contested 4 times while Akufo-Addo has just contested the third time, 2008, 2012 and 2016!

Akufo-Addo is almost the same age as Buhari as at the time of winning the election.