General News of Wednesday, 9 December 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.com'We are in comfortable lead’ – NPP Director of Elections borrows Anyidoho's phraseEvans Nimako is NPP Director of ElectionsThe Director of Elections for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Evans Nimako, has said analysis of election results by the party’s data analysts points to a resounding victory in the just-ended polls. “The General Secretary put it out there when we took the media to our collation centre and said that these are figures we picked up from all the 38,622 polling stations and we expect them to know. “So the General Secretary informed our party members that looking at what we have collated from all these polling stations the New Patriotic Party is in comfortable lead,” he said. The phrase “comfortable lead” became very popular a few hours to the declaration of results of the December 2016 election. However, after the EC declared the final results, it turned out the NDC had lost severely to then-opposition leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Source: GhanaWeb December 09, 2020 11:37 UTC