By our Reporter
Early on Tuesday, the results of 58 out of 275 constituencies have been collated and Akufo-Addo contesting on the platform of the New Patriotic Party, has polled 1,189,245 while his closest challenger, John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress, has received 972,985.
According to Ghana Election law, the winner is expected to poll over 50 per cent votes after the final collation at the electoral commission in Accra.
It was fairly observed that the election was peaceful across the country except for few incidents of violence.
According to the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), 235 incidents were recorded across the 4,000 polling stations it monitored. The incidents include harassment and intimidation (43 cases), violation of COVID-19 health and safety protocols (40), unauthorised persons at polling stations (24), and malfunction of biometric verification devices (21).
The others are the suspension of voting (16), non-opening of polling stations (9), polling stations running out of material (8), violation of voting or counting procedures (6), stealing or destruction of election material (4), voter disenfranchisement (4), vote-buying (4), ineligible persons allowed to vote (2), and ballot stuffing and over-voting (2).
In the statement, which was issued by Albert Arhin, CODEO’s national coordinator, the regions where some of the incidents took place are the North East, Greater Accra, Savannah, Central, Eastern, Ahafo, and Ashanti.
As at the time of filing this report, counting of results was still in progress.