By Christopher Arko
Accra, May 14 GNA – The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sunday chose former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party in the 2024 presidential election.
Mahama polled 297,603, or 98.9 per cent, of the votes while his challenger, former Kumasi mayor Kojo Bonsu scored 3,181, or 1.1 per cent.
“On behalf of the chairperson of the Commission, I duly declare Mr John Dramani Mahama duly elected with 98.9 per cent of the votes cast,” Dr Serebour Quaicoe, Director of Electoral Services of the Electoral Commission (EC) announced at the party’s headquarters in Accra.
He indicated that 305, 437 votes were cast in the presidential primaries. Valid votes were 300,784, whilst 4,653 votes were rejected.
Even before the EC officially confirmed the former President’s victory, Mr Kojo Bonsu, congratulated Mr Mahama for winning the party’s presidential contest.
In a Facebook post, the former Kumasi Mayor disclosed that he had called Mr Mahama to congratulate him on his victory.
“I have called H.E. John Dramani Mahama to congratulate him for the landslide victory. Just as I have indicated throughout my campaign, regardless of the outcome of this election, I will continue to serve the NDC party,” he said.
Mr Bonsu became the sole challenger to former President Mahama following the abrupt withdrawal of former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor from the race on Friday.
Dr Duffuor accused the party’s leadership of breaching the agreement and assurance given to the three presidential aspirants to resolve the issues raised about irregularities in the party’s voter register before Saturday’s polls.
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