The presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed that his decision to concede defeat in the December 7 election was met with opposition from members of his campaign team.Despite the ongoing vote count, Dr. Bawumia announced his concession on December 8, just hours after the process began.

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The following day, the Electoral Commission officially declared John Dramani Mahama as the winner with 6,328,397 votes, which amounted to 56.55% of the valid votes cast.In a meeting with NPP supporters at his residence on Thursday, December 26, Dr. Bawumia explained that his decision to concede so early was motivated by his dedication to maintaining peace and safeguarding the nation's stability.

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“So, even though the Electoral Commission had not yet pronounced [the winner], in fact some of my people in my team were saying, you can’t go out to concede, we don’t know if all this data is right, let’s wait. But I said, look, we know this data is right from our own system.

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“You know, so if you wait, you build up more tension and violence could come because people would think we are trying to rig the election because that is the message that was coming, that we were trying to rig the election.“But nobody has ever conceded an election without the EC coming out to pronounce, and I said there is a first time for everything.”

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