Ghana’s
former president John Mahama has scored a landslide primary victory to
become the opposition candidate in the West African country’s 2020
elections.
Mahama was the overwhelming favourite among seven
candidates, winning 95 percent of 213,487 votes cast on Saturday, making
him the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress.
Mahama
was president from 2012 to 2016, when he lost a re-election bid to
President Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over a
faltering economy and corruption allegations.
“Tonight, I want to
serve notice to Ghana that from the outcome of this election, the NDC
is strong,” Mahama said after his victory was announced.“The NDC is
united.
The NDC is poised for victory in 2020. And nothing,
absolutely nothing, can stop our march towards Flagstaff House (the seat
of government),” Mahama said at the social democratic party’s
headquarters in Accra.“It is a call to duty, a call to action and a call
to battle. I wish that this fire will keep on burning… It is my hope
that we will work together and eschew all attempts to divide us,” he
said.
Ghana was one of Africa’s fastest growing economies in
2018, fuelled by a surge in oil and gas production. The former British
colony is also a major producer of gold and cocoa
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