Nana Akufo-Addo Re-elected As Ghana's President For Second Time

 

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has been reappointed after a firmly challenged political race on Monday. 

Mr Akufo-Addo got 51.6% of the vote, contrasted and 47.4% won by his fundamental opponent, ex-President John Mahama, official outcomes appeared. 

Mr Mahama has not yet yielded rout. It was the third time the two legislators had confronted each other in an official political decision. 

Ghana has gained notoriety for being one of the most steady majority rules systems in Africa. 

Results in the parliamentary decisions still can't seem to be declared, however are required to be exceptionally close also. 

There are wild festivals the nation over after authentic outcomes demonstrated Mr Akufo-Addo had won a subsequent term, reports the BBC's Thomas Naadi from the capital, Accra. 

The president presently faces the test of handling significant levels of joblessness and boosting the economy, which has been gravely hit by the Covid pandemic, our journalist adds. 

Prior police said there had been 21 instances of political race related viciousness since Monday, leaving five individuals dead. 

This is Ghana's eighth official political race since its constitution was redrawn in 1992. 

Previous Ghanaian President and applicant of the resistance National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahamaimage copyrightAFP 

picture captionJohn Mahama was president until 2016 and has been crushed by Mr Akufo-Addo for a subsequent time 

Mr Mahama was president for a very long time until 2017, when he was prevailing by President Akufo-Addo. The two challenges were dictated by little edges. 

Due to the Covid pandemic, the nation's typical political conventions were deferred during the race. All things considered, President Akufo-Addo's middle right New Patriotic Party and Mr Mahama's middle left National Democratic Congress struggled via online media, radio and TV for a large part of the political race season. 

Be that as it may, in the most recent long stretches of crusading, alert was tossed to the breeze as lawmakers met hordes of electors. There is currently worry that there could be a flood in Covid contaminations. 

Ghana has announced in excess of 50,000 Covid-19 contaminations, with in any event 300 individuals surrendering to the infection.