Ghana - GTV News Report, 31-12-2008 - Nana Akufo-Addo

This clip is from the Ghana TV station, GTV, on their nightly news service. Dated the 31/12/2008, the report is regarding Nana Akufo-Addo, who was the candidate from the sitting New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2008 Presidential Elections. He comments on inconsistencies & fraud after the second round of voting, which saw him trailing in the votes against John Atta-Mills of the opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

While Akufo-Addo's arguments saw further voting in the Tain Constituency (Brong-Ahafo Region) to decide who the President Of Ghana would be, it was a whitewash, as Akufo-Addo received only about 10% of the vote there, and John Atta-Mills was elected.

The decision to force a decision from Tain was not well received, as Akufo-Addo would practically need every vote from the constituency to get close to Atta-Mills, but nontheless, he refused to concede at the time until Tain had voted. He eventually conceded on the 5th of January 2009, three days after the Tain constituency voted, and amongst some consternation from the public that he would not relinquish the challenge to Atta-Mills & the NDC.

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• Ghana
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• Akufo-Addo
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• Presidential
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• GTV

[modernhumble]

harry porter glasses

[Ghanapedia]

@modernhumble - I don't know if you have seen this picture of Nana sitting on a couch (maybe on a talk show), and he's sitting with his legs open with jeans on, so you can see the bulge.

I'm pretty sure it's photoshopped or he's used a sock, because otherwise his man-rifle makes the great John Holmes' classic member look like a pea-shooter !

It should be the pic for his campaign poster.

BTW - he's also looking a little like Morpheus from The Matrix, minus the leather coat.

[511873765076]

This cocaine sniffer is truly crazy. How can a party in opposition rig an election?

[ladykizita]

GOOD SPEACH NANA!! but u're too short... YOU MAYBE A GUUD PRESIDENT

[AyisiDaniel]

shame! a government in power accusing an opposition party of rigging?? who didn't know what happened in the ashanti region? losers always complain or find excuses

[Physicspilot]

LOL..no offence but this was the best joke of the day!!

[dedekwe]

well at least we have seen mills mess and awkward nature of doing things, we have seen NDC brutality in the country, you will be the next president so please be prepared, we don't want any corrupt and arrogant person in your cabinet or you follow suet like mills will in 2012. come and set the example in 2012 nanaoooooo nana