African Elections Project (Accra)
30 December 2008
Thousands of NDC supporters spent the night at the offices of the Electoral Commission (EC) headquarters in Accra. The crowd has made their intentions clear - that they are going to lay siege at the commission office until the final results are released.
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Daily Independent (Lagos)
30 December 2008
Baring any dramatic outcome, the Presidential run-off election in Ghana appears firmly in the wraps of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), which lost power eight years ago.
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allAfrica.com
29 December 2008
Ghana's opposition challenger for the country's presidency, John Atta Mills, is retaining his slight lead in a run-off election as the final votes are counted.
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African Elections Project (Accra)
30 December 2008
About 200 journalists have gathered at the conference room of the Electoral Commission (EC) to cover the announcement of the presidential run-off results by the chairman of the EC, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
30 December 2008
Reports from Ghana indicate that opposition candidate, John Evans Atta Mills, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is leading the country's presidential election run-off with 51.39 percent of the votes from 164 of the 230 constituencies, while Nana Akufo-Addo, the candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has 48.61 per cent.
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African Elections Project (Accra)
30 December 2008
As tensions rose in Ghana ahead of the announcement of the presidential election result, outgoing President John Kufuor released the following statement:
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