It is the spirit that is growing in the countries of West Africa that all should join together and create a common army and common currency so that it will be the cause that the whole of Africa will be reached by the spirit of independence.

Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat in Saturday’s election and wished good luck to opposition candidate former President John Mahama for his victory.

The election took place at a time when the West African country is facing its first serious economic crisis in more than 20 years.

This has caused the price of basic goods to stagnate, while the youth have difficulty finding jobs and the government is unable to pay its debts.

Although Bawumia conceded defeat, the results of the election have not yet been officially announced.

The Electoral Commission (EC) said the results of the election were delayed because supporters of the two main parties were disrupting the process and had asked the police to remove people from polling stations.

Mahama’s supporters took to the streets in different parts of the country to celebrate the victory, shouting for joy, waving flags, and honking their horns.

Salifu Abdul-Fatawu, from the central city of Kumasi, said he was very happy with the victory.

He said he hopes this means that he and his brother will find a job, and that the price of food and bread will decrease.

Even Nana, a supporter of the NPP (New Patriotic Party), admitted that he and his party were defeated saying “my party is the NPP, but whatever they have done is not good.

“The government was very bad during the election year so a lot of people were not happy.”

Although the election was generally peaceful, two people were shot dead on Saturday in two separate attacks, and the offices of the Electoral Commission in the northern town of Damongo were vandalized, allegedly by supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were upset that the results of the elections were announced late.

Ghanaians were expecting the first election results to be announced hours after the polls ended, but the head of the Electoral Commission asked them to be patient, saying they have 72 hours to announce the results.

Stores were also looted in the towns of Damongo and Tamale, also in the north.

Bawumia said that the acceptance of his defeat was based on the vote count conducted by his ruling party, the NPP.

He said that their tally showed that Mahama had won “solidly”, while Mahama’s NDC also won the parliamentary elections.

Mahama confirmed that Bawumia called him on the phone to congratulate him on his “great victory”.

Earlier, the NDC party said that the results of internal elections in the party had shown that Mahama won the election with 56% of the votes, while Bawumia got 41% of the votes.

Vice President Bawumia said he conceded defeat before the Electoral Commission officially declared the election results, in order to “prevent further protests and preserve the peace of our country”.

The US Embassy in Ghana’s capital Accra congratulated Ghana on a “good election”.

President Nana Akufo-Addo is leaving office after reaching the end of his statutory two-term term.

Mahama, 66, previously ruled Ghana from 2012 to 2017, when he was succeeded by Akufo-Addo. Mahama also lost in the 2020 elections, so this victory marks a return to the political arena.

Since multi-party politics returned to Ghana in 1992, the NDC and NPP have alternated in power.

No party has ever won more than two consecutive terms in power – this is apparently expected to continue.

Is Mahama John going to do the people what they want Ghana to reconcile with Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad that have already kicked out the foreign military bases on their land and I am going nowhere

The people who have confidence in him are likely to achieve the revolution desired by them.