Ghana Election: NPP Man Claims Bawumia Leading After Internal Collation From 1,275 Polling Stations
- Kofi Ofosu Nkansah claims New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate Mahamudu Bawumia has over 50% of the votes
- Nkansah has indicated that his figures are coming from internal New Patriotic Party collation
- In a Facebook post, he said the internal data was from 1,275 polling stations out of the 40,976 polling centres
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Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, the CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, claims New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate Mahamudu Bawumia has over 50% of the votes, according to their party's internal polling.
Nkansah, an NPP member, claimed his party had collated data from 1,275 polling stations out of the 40,976 polling centres.
Source: Facebook
According to his Facebook post, Bawumia has over 158,000 votes, while the National Democratic Congress candidate John Mahama has slightly over 144,000 votes.
He did not give a regional breakdown of the results. There are no independent provisional results as yet.
Since polls closed at 5pm, results have been trickling in from polling centres nationwide, but no defined trend in the election has been established.
Mahama and Bawumia confident of victory
Mahama and Bawumia both expressed confidence in a victory in the general election when they cast their ballots earlier on December 7.
The NDC candidate said he felt the election was a done deal for him because of the abysmal performance of the Bawumia-Akufo-Addo government.
Bawumia also said he was hopeful the NPP would win both the presidential and parliamentary polls.
"I think that we have done a lot of work and put our message to the people," he said.
Alan Kyerematen mocked over provisional election results
YEN.com.gh reported that provisional results showed that independent presidential candidate Alan Kyeremanten recorded multiple solitary votes at polling stations after the close of polls.
The Movement for Change leader underperformed behind Nana Kwame Bediako in most provisional results.
He was projected to finish fourth in the presidential election race. He notably broke away from the NPP after grievances with the governing party’s presidential primary process.
Kyeremanten's provisional results triggered ridicule among some Ghanaians on social media.
Source: YEN.com.gh
