Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has won the country’s national election, defeating President John Mahama, for the second time electoral commissioner Jean Mensa announced.
Crowds of jubilant supporters gathered outside the house of the 76-year-old New Patriotic Party (NPP) leader, and President of Ghana to .
President Akufo-Addo defeated President Mahama by 51.59 percent to 47.46 percent, Jean Mensa said.
“It is my duty and my honour to declare Nana Akufo-Addo as the president-elect of Ghana,” she told a news conference in the capital, Accra, on Wednesday.
Prior to Jean Mensa’s announcement, the opposition leader John Dramani Mahama had said he will not accept the results of a flawed election.
