Election victory for Ghana’s former president

John Dramani Mahama, who used to be President of Ghana, made a political return by winning the country’s presidential election after Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia gave up on Sunday.

The outcomes of Ghana’s general election are yet another blow to the ruling party in a region where voters are upset and want to change leadership because of high prices, hard times economically, and the local currency falling in value.

Mahama, 66, was president of Ghana from 2012 to 2016, and he said that Bawumia would keep up the policies that caused the country’s worst economic problem in a generation.

The country that grows the second most cocoa in the world and a lot of gold made a deal with the foreign Monetary Fund (IMF) last year to get $3 billion to pay off most of its foreign debt.

“I got a call this morning from my brother Dr. Bawumia congratulating me on my clear victory in Saturday’s election.” I want to thank Ghana in a post on X social media.

Bawumia told the press at a press conference from his home that he had called Mahama to thank him and that Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) had also won the election for parliament.

Former President John Dramani Mahama clearly won the presidential election, according to data that Bawumia’s party collected itself. He also said that the NDC had won the senate election.

To calm things down, Bawumia said he gave up before the final vote was announced.
There had been fights in a few local district centers where results from polling places were still coming in before he gave up.

“I am making this concession speech before the official announcement by the Electoral Commission to avoid further tension and preserve the peace of our country,” Bawumia stated.

“It is important that the world investor community continues to believe in the peaceful and democratic character of Ghana,” said he.
Many people who supported the NDC celebrated in the streets of Accra, the city, on Sunday after Bawumia admitted loss.

The early results gave Mahama and the NDC party a huge lead. After initial results from 68 of the 276 districts were counted, Joy News said Mahama had more than 53% of the vote, while Bawumia had 45.16%.

Sammy Gyamfi, the national spokesperson for the NDC, told a news conference on Sunday, before Bawumia gave up, that party agents from 38,896 of the 40,976 polling places had gathered preliminary data that showed Mahama was ahead with about 56%.

He said that it looked like the party would win about 185 of the 276 seats in Parliament.