The Electoral Commission was expected to declare the official results of the presidential poll, which ended Wednesday at 5:00pm on Saturday.
But in what has been described as an unexpected turn of events, President Mahama Friday night placed a call to Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party to concede defeat.
His concession, according to the presidency, was based on provisional figures from the Electoral Commission, which puts Nana Akufo-Addo in a comfortable lead.
And Nana Akufo-Addo whose third attempt at the presidency paid quickly took to Facebook to applaud President Mahama of the gesture, which he has described as a show of statesmanship
“I thanked him for this graceful gesture, which is in the finest traditions of Ghanaian statesmanship and, on my part, assured him of my cooperation for a successful transition,” Nana Akufo-Addo wrote.
The President-elect wrote in the post that the phone call from the President came in at exactly 7:51pm Friday and wished him the best of luck and “God’s blessings.
He said President Mahama has assured him of his “full co-operation in organizing the transition from his administration to mine.”
“I also thanked him for his service to our nation and said that I felt sure that his contribution to the welfare of our Republic was by no means over,” he ended his post.
Earlier Thursday, presidential candidaes of the Convention People’s Party, National Democratic Party, People’s National Convention and independent candidate called Nana Akufo-Addo to congraturlate him when provisional figures from the various constituencies showed he was leading.
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