Akufo-Addo: Third Time Lucky

Ghana’s democracy in 2016 witnessed another leap forward after power changed hands for the third time in 15 years.

 

Opposition leader, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, candidate of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, won the December 7, 2016 tightly contested polls after a third trial. He contested and lost the same elections in 2008 and 2012.

President John Mahama called Akufo-Addo to admit defeat. Akufo-Addo won 53.85 per cent of the votes, while President Mahama took 44.40 per cent. Turnout was 68.62 per cent. Ghana has been a multi-party democracy since the end of military rule in 1992. Aged 72 years, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a human rights lawyer, campaigned for return to multi-party democracy under military rule.

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