If the calculations are not misleading or inaccurate, the 2024 general elections might have the most numbers of independent presidential candidates contesting than any other in the fourth republic.

That means that besides your favourite, usual political party representatives, there will be some daring individuals with not much of a large political background who will want to beat the odds and become Ghana’s next president.

Facing the real facts, that is not going to be an easy task for any of them, not even for Alan Kyerematen of the Movement for Change, whose popularity before he left the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in January 2024, seems not to be at the same level.

But before the official list of the 2024 presidential candidates is released by the Electoral Commission of Ghana, and as GhanaWeb’s own way of counting down to the December 7, elections, we look back at the faces that made it to the ballot sheets of the 2020 polls.

It is worth noting that by December 2020 – a year that was saddled with the Novel Coronavirus, many people were complaining bitterly about the harshness of the economy.

This is the list of individuals whose faces appeared on the 2020 ballot papers, and how they each performed:

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP)
Running Mate: Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Votes: 6,730,587

John Dramani Mahama, National Democratic Congress (NDC)
Running Mate: Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang
Votes: 6,213,182

Christian Kwabena Andrews, Ghana Union Movement (GUM)
Running Mate: Abu Grant Lukeman
Votes: 105,548

Ivor Greenstreet, Convention People’s Party (CPP)
Running Mate: Emmanuel Bobobe
Votes: 12,200

David Apasera, People’s National Convention (PNC)
Running Mate: Divine Ayivor
Votes: 10,882

Asiedu Walker, Independent
Running Mate: Jacob Osei Yeboah
Votes: 9,704

Kofi Akpaloo, Liberal Party of Ghana
Running Mate: Margaret Obrine Sarfo
Votes: 7,683

Hassan Ayariga, All People’s Congress (APC)
Running Mate: Frank Yaw Kuadey
Votes: 7,138

Bridgitte Dzogbenuku, Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
Running Mate: Kofi Asamoah-Siaw
Votes: 6,849

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, National Democratic Party (NDP)
Running Mate: Peter Tennyson Asamoah
Votes: 6,549

Akua Donkor, Ghana Freedom Party (GFP)
Running Mate: Ernest Adakabre Frimpong-Manso
Votes: 5,574

Henry Herbert Lartey, Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP)
Running Mate: Andy Bampoe-Sekyi
Votes: 3,564

The months ahead will tell who and who will feature on the 2024 list, and ultimately, who will be crowned Ghana’s replacement for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

AE