Ghana’s Electoral Commission has declared former president and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday’s presidential election with 56.55% of the vote.
Mahama’s main rival, vice president and ruling-party presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia, already conceded defeat on Sunday in both presidential and legislative elections to ease tensions.
The electoral commission said it had counted votes from 267 out of the West African country’s 276 constituencies.
Mahama who is making a comeback after serving as Ghana’s president from 2012 to 2016, described Bawumia as representing a continuation of the policies that led to Ghana’s worst economic crisis in a generation.
