The 2024 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, continues to share more details about events that transpired after Election Day.

Dr. Bawumia, the Vice President of Ghana, in a viral video clip, disclosed to a gathering the moment his team got to know that they had lost the election.

He disclosed that they got to know that they had lost the election just eight hours after voting had been completed, around 3 am on Sunday, December 8, 2024.

“(sic) the results and it was clear we were not winning this particular election. I thought it was not good to leave the country under tension for any length of time. In fact, by 3 am, we knew that we had lost the election. The Electoral Commission was going to take a few days to get to that conclusion.

“But our own collation, the data that we got from all the polling stations, was clear that we were not going to win this election. And so the question was, should we wait for the Electoral Commission to go through its processes and then announce in a few days' time or do I go out immediately? There were different opinions, but I made the decision that it was better to go out. At 3 am it was a bit early, people were sleeping,” he said.

The vice president said that he decided to inform the people of Ghana about his concession in the morning.

He explained that he believed that the concession would help ease the tension and avert the potential of violence as the country awaited the Electoral Commission to declare the official election results.

“So, I decided that we’ll do it at 9 am on Sunday morning. And so, we gathered the press and then I made my announcement that morning to say my opponent had won decisively and we are conceding the election. And I think that that helped bring down the tension in the country and help the process of the transition. I made that early concession to preserve our peace in Ghana because otherwise we could have had many, many, you know, incidents of violence across and I could see the potential," he added.

Watch his remarks in the video below:

For me, this one act has mde you a HERO of PEACE. I salute you🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/lSiwFxT5Zd

— Paul Kusi (@PaulKusi7) December 26, 2024