Vice President and NPP Presidential Candidate Mahamudu Bawumia congratulates former President John Mahama ahead of Official Result.
Monrovia, Liberia – John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has won the 2024 presidential elections in Ghana. At the end of Saturday’s voting in the West African country, the major opposition leader of NPP Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia concided defeat and congratulated Mr. Mahama.
“We respect it with all humility,” Bawumia stated at a press conference on Sunday, adding that the people of Ghana have spoken and voted for change at this time.
The loss in Saturday’s election puts an end to President Nana Akufo-Addo’s two terms in office with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), which was characterized by Ghana’s worst economic crisis in recent memory, which included rising inflation and a debt default.
Bawumia said that in order to congratulate the NDC Leader, he contacted Mr. Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Earlier, NDC spokesperson Sammy Gyamfi informed reporters that Mahama received 56.3 percent of the vote, compared to 41.3 percent for Bawumia, according to the party’s internal analysis of the data.
According to the NPP’s own vote gather, the NDC emerged victorious in the parliamentary election.
On X, Mahama, the former president of Ghana from July 2012 to January 2017, said that Bawumia had called to congratulate him on his “emphatic victory.”
The 65-year-old’s supporters were already assembling and celebrating outside the party campaign headquarters in Accra, the capital, with blaring horns and cheering.
He made several promises to “reset” the nation throughout his campaign and made an effort to win over young Ghanaians.
In the three decades of Ghana’s Fourth Republic since the restoration to multi-party democracy in 1992 his triumph is historic since it makes him the first president to win the presidency again after losing the election.
Following the gold and cacao producer’s default and currency devaluation crisis, which resulted in a $3 billion IMF bailout, Ghana’s economic problems took center stage during the election.
During the campaign, Mahama pledged to establish a new office to investigate government procurements above $5 million. He claimed that one of the main causes of corruption is unregulated procurement procedures.
However, Mahama also expressed support for the anti-LGBTQ measure that Ghana’s parliament approved in February but has not yet been put into law, drawing outcry from around the world.
According to Ghana’s electoral commission, official results should be available by Tuesday.
Since the resumption to multi-party politics in 1992, Ghana’s two major parties, the NPP and NDC, have rotated in power evenly, demonstrating a history of democratic stability.
