acegame888 A President Rejected by Voters Eight Years Ago Wins Election Again in Ghana
acegame888 A President Rejected by Voters Eight Years Ago Wins Election Again in Ghana
John Dramani Mahamaacegame888, a former president of Ghana who was voted out of office eight years ago, staged a dramatic political comeback on Sunday after his main opponent conceded defeat in the West African country’s presidential election.
While official results from the vote that took place on Saturday have yet to be released, the candidate of the governing party, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, said he had called Mr. Mahama to congratulate him on his victory.
Mr. Bawumia said in a statement that data collected by his team showed that Mr. Mahama had “won the presidential election decisively.”
Ghana, the largest gold producer in Africa and a key U.S. security ally in a region beset by coups and jihadist insurgencies, has been struggling with one of its worst economic crises in decades.
After the government defaulted in 2022 to its international lenders, last year it contracted a $3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund.
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