{"id":2593,"date":"2016-08-28T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2016-08-28T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T14:24:39","slug":"politicsghana-the-john-mahama-akufo-addo-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/our-country\/history-and-politics\/politicsghana-the-john-mahama-akufo-addo-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Mahama-Akufo-Addo Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2594\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NanaAddoJDM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2594\" class=\"wp-image-2594\" src=\"http:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NanaAddoJDM.jpg\" alt=\"PoliticsGhana: The John Mahama-Akufo-Addo Factor\" width=\"497\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PoliticsGhana: The John Mahama-Akufo-Addo Factor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>PoliticsGhana: HISTORY, COMMENTARY &amp; ANALYSIS- &#8230;YES! So that we might Understand the Seemingly Political Desperation and Nervousness of the 2016 Ghanaian Presidential and the Parliamentary Elections<\/strong><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission of Ghana put the said controversial final result of the 07\/08 December 2012 presidential elections in which the then incumbent president- John Dramani Mahama; and the main opposition leader- Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, were the forerunners, as follows: [a] John Dramani Mahama 5, 574, 761 (50.70%) and [c]. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo 5, 248, 898 (47.74%)\u00a0 The overall electoral showings of the minor political parties, as announced by the Electoral Commissioner Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, on 09 December 2012, amounted to 171,603 valid votes- representing 1.56%.<\/p>\n<p>This is captured in detailed by the Electoral Commission as follows: [b] Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey 38, 223 (0.35%); [d] Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom 64, 362 (0.59%); [e.] Akwasi Addai Odike 8, 877 (0.08%); [f] Hassan Ayariga 24, 617 (0.22%); [g] Dr. Michael Abu Sakara Forster 20, 323 (0.18%) and last but not the least [h] Jacob Osei Yeboah 15, 201 (0.14%). If all variables\/factors remain on 07 December 2016, then the contesting margin of valid votes at stake (+-) or separating the sitting-president- John Dramani Mahama (NDC) and his main political arch-rival- Nana Addo Danakwa Akufo-Addo, of the NPP, equals 325,863 (2.96%). Both leaders of the NDC and the NPP, had secured five(5) million valid votes, behind them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow (Mtf)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">JusticeGhana<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PoliticsGhana: HISTORY, COMMENTARY &amp; ANALYSIS- &#8230;YES! So that we might Understand the Seemingly Political Desperation and Nervousness of the 2016 Ghanaian Presidential and the Parliamentary Elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,34,35],"tags":[519,269,54],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-justiceghana","category-history-and-politics","category-our-country","tag-2016-ghana-elections","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-nana-akufo-addo","cat-133-id","cat-34-id","cat-35-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiceghana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}