Provisional result projections by the media in Ghana say that presidential hopeful of the main opposition party NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo has won the 2016 presidential elections in the West African country.
It is almost statistically impossible for the incumbent President John Mahama to obtain 50% plus one required to win the presidential ballot.
Akufo-Addo’s campaign organisation called on President Mahama to concede defeat early on Thursday, a day after the Ghanians went to the poll on December 7, 2016. Both candidates claimed a comfortable lead on Thursday, however.
Out of an estimated 10 million votes, the winner needs 5,272,633 votes to win.
NPP candidate Akufo-Addo has 4,213,710 and needs 1,117,663 votes to cross the mark.
With 69 constituencies left, 21 of which are in the NPP stronghold of the Ashanti and Eastern regions, John Mahama is unlikely to garner 1,561,931 votes to overturn the result.
There is also uniformity of provisional results among the other media groups like the EIB Network and TV3 Network.
The country’s the electoral commission is yet to officially declare the winner of the 2016 presidential election and the agency has been accused of “delaying results“.
“We in the NPP are quietly confident that we have won a famous and historic victory,” Akufo-Addo said, as his party picked up majority of the seats in parliament.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, a senior official of the ruling party, countered that Mahama was “comfortably ahead” and asked his supporters to remain calm.
“The results are still trickling in and the call and declaration by the NPP is irresponsible and treasonable because it can throw this country into chaos,” he said.
Additional reports from Face of Agulu.
