John Atta-Mills, 64, is the winner of Ghana's presidential elections, the electoral commission said Saturday as it announced the outcome of a run-off vote.
"On the basis of the official results given, it's my duty to declare Professor John Evans Atta-Mills president-elect of the Republic of Ghana," electoral commissioner Kwado Afari-Gyan told reporters.Atta-Mills, running under the banner of the National Democratic Congress, took 50.23 percent of the vote, against 49.77 percent for his rival Nana Akufo-Addo, 64, of the governing New Patriotic Party.
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