General News of Sunday, 9 August 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comVoters registration has met expectations – Mahama concedesplay videoJohn Mahama is hoping to enter the Jubilee House again on December 7, 2020Despite initially mounting a strong resistance to the process to compile a new voters register, former President and flagbearer of the opposition NDC, John Dramani Mahama, has admitted that the exercise has been successful. “I think the exercise met our expectations… [Over 16 million registrants] is within the range that one would have expected,” the National Democratic Congress presidential candidate said Sunday, August 9, 2020, in an interview. The Facebook Live interview in Kete Krachi in the Krachi West District of the Oti Region is part of activities on his tour of the Region. The EC revealed that biometric data of 16,663,669 Ghanaians have been captured in the just ended compilation exercise of a new voters register. The Greater Accra region has especially lost some grounds in percentage terms from 21.34 % to 20.8% of the total registered.

Source: GhanaWeb August 09, 2020 11:37 UTC