GHANAIANS cast their votes yesterday in what is expected to be a close race between President Nana Akufo-Addo and his main rival, John Mahama, who are offering competing plans to end an economic crisis.
Eyes are on the West African powerhouse to see if it can keep its standing as a bastion of democracy in the unstable region where election disputes this year have fanned fears of a slide back into authoritarianism.
A long line of voters stretched out of a polling station and down the road in the capital Accra’s Tema West district for the presidential and parliamentary poll. Efua Opoku-Ware, 18, said she was voting “for a better leader who will address the unemployment situation and give hope to the youth for a better future” without saying who she had picked.
There are 12 presidential candidates but most voters are likely to choose between Akufo-Addo and New
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