Ghana’s main opposition party nominates former President John Mahama as its presidential candidate

May 14. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Former Ghanaian President John Mahama has earned a new chance to regain power in the 2024 elections after his landslide victory this Saturday in the primaries of the country’s main opposition party, the Democratic National Congress (CDN).

The 64-year-old historian and politician has swept the primaries by collecting 297,603 votes, 98.9 percent, against his main rival, the former executive director of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Kojo Bonsu.

In his acceptance speech, Mahama has called for “cooperation” among all ranks and supporters to offer a united front in the next elections after primaries “without individual winners or losers”, and in which the party, as a whole, “has emerged victorious above all”, according to a statement collected on his Facebook page and collected by the Ghanaian portal Graphic.

This will be the third time that Mahama will appear to lead again, as he did between 2012 and 2017, one of the most stable democracies in Africa, in a new opportunity to defeat the current president Nana Akufo-Addo, who has defeated him in twice at the polls, in 2016 and 2020.

Mahama and Akufo-Addo will face each other at a time of deep economic crisis in the African country, pending an IMF loan of approximately 3,000 million euros to save the situation. “Let’s keep our collective gaze on the supreme objective of this party: to get Ghana out of the current abyss in which we find our country,” Mahama recalled in this regard.