NANA AKUFO-ADDO, long-serving leader of Ghana's opposition, is determined to run again for president in 2016--so he declared before a boisterous crowd in the front garden of his home in Accra, the country's capital. Even though the polls are two-and-a-half years away, it feels as if a starting-gun has been fired.
Ghana has had six fair elections since 1992, with power twice changing hands between the two main parties, Mr Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) and President John Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC).
For Mr Mahama, Mr Akufo-Addo, now 70, is a familiar foe. Mr Mahama's predecessor as president and NDC leader, John Atta Mills, defeated Mr Akufo-Addo, previously foreign minister, in the election of 2008. Mr Akufo-Addo then lost again in 2012, to Mr Mahama, after the latter had stepped up from vice-president to president following Mr Mills's death in office earlier that year. After eight months of deliberation, the Supreme Court rejected Mr Akufo-Addo's claim that the vote of 2012 was fraudulent, a verdict he accepted.
Mr Akufo-Addo then withdrew to France and Britain to lick his wounds, returning...Continue reading
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