{"id":237812,"date":"2012-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/president-declared-ghana-winner\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T00:00:00","slug":"president-declared-ghana-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/president-declared-ghana-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"President declared Ghana winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"caption body-narrow-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/64664000\/jpg\/_64664045_016703869.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"President John Mahama in Accra. 9 Dec 2012\" \/><span class=\"c1\">John Mahama took office in July after the unexpected death of President John Atta Mills<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\">Ghana&#8217;s presidential election has been won by incumbent President John Mahama, the electoral commission has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral commission said that Mr Mahama had won 50.7% against his NPP rival Nana Akufo-Addo on 47.74%.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came hours after the opposition accused the governing party of conspiring with commission staff to fix Friday&#8217;s poll.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama urged &#8220;all leaders of all political parties to respect the voice of the people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The voice of the people is the voice of God,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the capital Accra fired tear gas to disperse opposition protesters from outside the commission&#8217;s offices.<\/p>\n<p>Roads around the electoral offices were also barricaded by police as the results were announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, based on the results given, I declare John Dramani Mahama president-elect,&#8221; electoral commission chief Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, one of the world&#8217;s fastest growing economies, is regarded as one of Africa&#8217;s most stable democracies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akufo-Addo lost the 2008 presidential poll by one percentage point, but accepted the result.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption body-narrow-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/64664000\/jpg\/_64664058_016705560.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Police outside electoral commission in Accra. 9 Dec 2012\" \/><span class=\"c1\">Police with armoured vehicles have been protecting the electoral commission offices<\/span><\/div>\n<p>However, on Sunday his party said they had &#8220;enough concrete evidence&#8221; to prove that he actually won this year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ruling NDC conspired with certain EC staff in constituencies across the country to falsify the election results and thereby abuse the mandate of the people of Ghana,&#8221; the party said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was this planned, systematic stealing of votes at the collation level that was, thankfully, discovered in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The party cited discrepancies between initial tally sheets and the results reported in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Glitches with a new finger-printing system meant that voting continued into Saturday in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, observers said the election had passed off largely peacefully.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mahama took office in July after the unexpected death of President John Atta Mills Ghana&#8217;s presidential election has been won by incumbent President John Mahama, the electoral commission has announced. 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