Ghanaian presidential election, 2008
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A presidential election will be held in Ghana in December 2008, at the same time as a parliamentary election.[1]
On December 21, 2006, former Vice-President John Atta-Mills, who unsuccessfully ran as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate in 2000 and 2004, was overwhelmingly elected by NDC as its candidate for the 2008 presidential election with a majority of 81.4%, or 1,362 votes. Ekwow Spio-Garbah was second with 8.7% (146 votes), Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu was third with 8.2% (137 votes), and Eddie Annan was fourth with 1.7% (28 votes).[2] On April 9, 2008, the NDC announced that John Mahama had been unanimously endorsed as the party's vice-presidential candidate by the NDC's National Executive Committee at an emergency meeting in Accra.[3]
Former Foreign Minister Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was elected as the 2008 presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) at a party congress on December 23, 2007, receiving 47.96% of valid votes (1,096 votes). Although he fell short of the required 50%, the second-place candidate, John Alan Kyeremanten, conceded defeat and backed Akufo-Addo.[4]
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- ^ Electoral Calendar- world elections,US elections,presidential election,world parties
- ^ "NDC CONGRESS RESULTS-Prof Wins", Modernghana.com, December 22, 2006.
- ^ "Mills Chooses John Mahama As Running Mate", ModernGhana.com, April 10, 2008.
- ^ "Akufo-Addo Is The Man Of The Moment - President", Modernghana.com, December 24, 2007.
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