Ghana's President-elect John Dramani Mahama waves to his supporters, after the electoral commission declared him winner of the presidential election in Accra, Ghana, December 9, 2024.Mahama’s main rival, vice president and ruling-party presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia, already conceded defeat on Sunday in both presidential and legislative elections to ease tensions.
Mahama, 66, is making a comeback after serving as Ghana’s president from 2012 to 2016. He described Bawumia as representing a continuation of the policies that led to Ghana’s worst economic crisis in a generation. “The victory shows that the Ghanaian people have little tolerance for bad governance,” he added, promising “severe measures and governance reforms” to “reset our nation”.before the election, Mahama said he would seek to renegotiate terms of a $3-billion International Monetary Fund bailout secured last year to restructure the country’s debt.
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