[ 2019-02-23 ]

Mahama leads NDC into 2020 elections
Former President John Dramani Mahama will lead the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the 2020
elections justifying the prediction of pundits
that he remains by a petering distance, the
party’s most marketed candidate.

He runs away with 95.24% of the vote, leaving six
others to squabble over less than 5% in a poll
that involved about 330,000 NDC voters.

His obscure and distant challenger Prof. Joshua
Alabi managed only 3,399 representing 1.516% of
votes cast while the man said to have mentored
Mahama in politics, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin
placed third with 2,313 (1.032%).

NDC return, Goosie Tanoh, finally got a shot at
his most cherished political ambition but polled
2,038 votes (0.909%) to place fourth.

Ekwow Spio-Gabrah placed fifth with 1457 votes
(0.650%), Sylvester Mensah managed 932 votes
(0.415%) with Nurudeen Iddrisu securing 513 votes
(0.231) to place sixth and seventh, respectively.

To understand the size of his victory, John Mahama
won by a larger percentage contesting six others
than he won when he stood unchallenged in the 2015
NDC Presidential primaries.

In that 2015 YES/NO vote, he won 95.1% of the
votes in a poll in which the ballot paper had only
his picture. John Mahama beat every other
contender in their own constituency except Alban
Bagbin.

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Meanwhile, the camp of Augustus
“Goosie” Tanoh has expressed
disappointment following the humiliating defeat
suffered by their candidate in the presidential
primaries.

“The results we’ve seen so far would
suggest that we have lost. You go into a
competition with the object of winning. It is not
the outcome that we are looking for,”
Kyeretwie Opoku, the Campaign Coordinator Mr.
Tanoh told Joy News Kwesi Parker-Wilson at the NDC
headquarters which also served as the national
collation centre.

Source - Myjoyonline

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