John Mahama wins Ghana’s presidential election

Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana’s vice-president, has conceded defeat to John Mahama in the country’s presidential election.

Bawumia is the candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Mahama is of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Results trickling in have placed Mahama on course to win the election.

While the former president has gathered 56.39 percent of the votes with 976,644, Bawumia has 42.64 percent with 738,493 votes.