Ghana Opposition Leader Ahead in Election as Ballots Are Counted
- NPP’s Akufo-Addo leads with 57% of provisional count
- Broadcaster Joy FM projects Akufo-Addo as poll winner
John Mahama Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo is leading incumbent President John Mahama with almost a third of the votes counted after Wednesday’s general election.
Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party won 57 percent of more than 3 million votes with ballots counted in 80 of the country’s 275 constituencies, according to a Bloomberg News tally of provisional results posted on the Twitter account of the Ghana Electoral Commission. Mahama, of the ruling National Democratic Congress, took 40.8 percent of the vote. The election commission is continuing to count ballots and hasn’t yet verified any results.