Truemors
Candidate Prof. John Atta Mills leading NDC
National Democratic Congress, or NDC, has 48.98 percent of the vote
Prof. Mills said the NDC would provide three modern district hospitals for Koforidua, Wa and Bolgatanga. The party would also improve on the energy stock of the country from 1,600 megawatts to 5,000 megawatts through innovations in gas and hydro-electric power in order to exploit bauxite and other mineral deposits. More social to expect from Mills, he has good cards with Ghana's booming economy and recent Oil fields findings.
Africa, Accra, Ghana - Westcoast
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghanaians walked the streets holding radios to their ears and congregated next to TV sets Monday as early results in one of Africa's few stable democracies showed the opposition leading by a sliver.
With only a quarter of the precincts counted, there is plenty of room for change. But early results showed opposition candidate John Atta Mills leading the ruling party's Nana Akufo-Addo by some 10,000 votes.
The opposition's base is the urban poor concentrated in the capital, who live in areas that have largely been left untouched by Ghana's stunning economic growth. Results are expected to begin trickling in from the countryside, where the ruling party has traditionally led.
According to a statement released by the country's Electoral Commission, Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress, or NDC, has 48.98 percent of the vote with 63 out of 230 precincts reporting.
Akufo-Addo, whose New Patriotic Party, or NPP, has been in power for the past eight years, is close behind with 48.55 percent of the vote.
In a year that has seen disputed elections in both Kenya and Zimbabwe, voters here are keenly aware that they are viewed as a role model for the rest of the continent.
"I am proud that my country is a democracy," said Salomey Tackie, who along with several hundred neighbors waited for results outside her polling station late Sunday in one of the capital's crowded shantytowns.
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