A Better Change For Ghana

You’ve been running after something with all your heart and soul. You’ve spent years in the pursuit of achieving success with all the zeal and hard work, but after losing multiple times you feel to quit. The moment you look back at the time which you’ve spent in chasing your goal it would seem to be the sheer wastage of time. Just imagine a man, in the same situation with the vision that “if I quit now, then all the time, which I’ve endeavored in this case would go down the drain. Instead, I would not quit and keep on trying so that I could win and make this chase a fruitful one”. The man with this vision could achieve almost anything, and it has been proved to be true by Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo from National Patriotic Party (NPP), in the recent elections for the post of President in Ghana. Every champion was once a contender that never gave up.

The Ghana elections were held on December 7, 2016. Seven parties got themselves registered in the elections, for the post of the President. Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the election, defeating John Dramani Mahama, the previous President in power of the National Democratic Congress (NDC- the only potential opposing party). He is married to Rebecca Akufo-Addo. Akufo-Adda defeated President Mahama by securing 53.8% of the votes in comparison to 44.4% votes secured by John Dramani Mahama, as per the figures announced by the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei. The elections has had some speed breakers in view of some problems which included the boycott of polls by over a thousand voters at four polling stations in the District of Lambusie-Karni, the delayed start of polling process at Dwarf Island, a town in the Afram Plains, North Constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana due to the late arrival of electoral materials at polling stations, extension of voting time in the Jaman North constituency in the Brong Ahafo region on Thursday, December 8, 2016.