General News of Thursday, 7 December 2017<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n 2017-12-07<\/p>\n The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has marked one year election victory with a national thanksgiving service to thank and appreciate God for the victory.<\/p>\n Hundreds of supporters and government officials swarmed the Accra International Conference Center (ICC) Thursday, to celebrate the goodness of the Lord.<\/p>\n The event was themed \u2018Thanking the Lord who won the battle for Ghana.\u2019<\/p>\n Election 2016<\/b><\/p>\n Then NPP presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo pulled off a stunning upset when he won the 2016 presidential poll in the first round.<\/p>\n He was the first under the 4th Republic to unseat an incumbent president without a run-off.<\/p>\n Mr Akufo-Addo polled 5,697,093 representing 53.80 percent of total valid votes cast with the then President John Dramani Mahama polling 4,701,162, which represented 44.40 percent.<\/p>\n But Joy News had projected Mr Akufo-Addo as the winner of the poll before Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Charlotte Osei announced the final results.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is almost statistically impossible for President John Mahama to obtain 50 percent plus one required to win the presidential ballot,\u201d Joy News\u2019 Evans Mensah announced on December 9, 2017.<\/p>\n The then governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) had told Ghanaians it was cruising to another victory.<\/p>\n But after the results were declared, the \u201ccomfortable lead\u201d that the NDC supposedly took had become just a funny slogan Ghanaians shared among themselves.<\/p>\n A year on<\/b><\/p>\n It has been a year since Ghanaians voted for the NPP to deliver on the promises it made on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n![\"Npp](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/76478011.295.jpg\" "\\"Npp")
play video<\/span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n