Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won presidential elections in West Africa’s second-biggest economy after beating incumbent President John Mahama. Akufo-Addo was declared the winner on Friday by the chairman of Ghana’s electoral commission, Charlotte Osei, shortly after Mahama called him to concede defeat in Wednesday’s vote. Akufo-Addo won 53.9 percent of ballots cast against 44.4 percent for Mahama, Osei said in a televised broadcast on Joy News. “I will not let you down,” Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party told thousands of supporters who were dancing and shooting fireworks around his home in the Nima suburb of the capital, Accra. “I will do all in my power to live up to your hope and expectations.” Former Lawyer The 72-year-old former lawyer emerged as winner after pledging to create jobs and reignite an economy that’s seen faltering growth amid power outages and low prices for main exports oil, cocoa and gold. Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress, assumed of...
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