The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has congratulated President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his victory in last Wednesday’s polls.
The association spoke of its pride in Nana Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP), presidential candidate for election 2016, who is also a very senior and distinguished member of the association, being the third member of the GBA to be elected President since the advent of the fourth Republic.
In a statement issued on Sunday and signed by the National President, Benson Nutsukpui and National Secretary, Justin Amenuvor also applauded the Electoral Commissioner, Charlotte Osei for conducting a “free, fair, generally orderly and peaceful” election.
The Association said it shares in the joy of Akufo-Addo’s “achievement and wish him well as he embarks on the arduous task of administering the affairs of our nation. We pray that the Almighty God would guide and protect him during his term as President.”
The NPP Flagbearer secured the presidency after a third time, beating the incumbent, President John Mahama with 5, 716, 026, representing 53.85 per cent of valid votes cast.
Nana Akufo-Addo has become Ghana’s fifth president under the fourth Republic.
President Mahama, who ran on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), secured 4,713,277 votes, representing 44.40 of valid votes cast.
His defeat makes him the first incumbent to lose an election since Ghana returned to multi-party democracy in 1992.
Other contestants were the People’s National Convention (PNC) candidate, Dr. Edward Mahama, who had 22,214 votes (0.21) percent, the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, who received 16,878 (0.16 per cent) and the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom,who had 105, 682 ((1 per cent). Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, Convention People’s Party (CPP), who had 25,395 (0.24 per cent) and the independent candidate, Jacob Osei Yeboah, who received 10,781,609, (0.15).
The total votes cast were 10,761,609, out of 15,712,499 names on the voters’ register, representing 68 per cent turnout.
