Hours after the polls closed on December 7, Nana Akomea, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) deputy campaign chairman, disclosed that the party realized they had lost the general elections in 2024. Speaking on Peace FM's Kokrokoo program on December 11, Nana Akomea clarified that the NPP was able to track polling station results in real time thanks to their internal collation system, which was run by Joe Anokye. As to a report, he mentioned that the system gave updates every 20 minutes, which enabled the party to monitor the election results as they happened.
He claimed that the party knew they had lost by 11:30 PM on election night. "I want to thank Joe Anokye and our collation officers. Their work was excellent. By 11 or 11:30 p.m., we were aware that we had lost. We received updates every twenty minutes from the system they set up," he claimed. According to Nana Akomea, the NPP was in the lead at first during the collation process. They were ahead based on the results of the first 2,500 polling places. However, their lead disappeared as more polling station results were received. They were clearly falling behind by the time they had the results from 8,000 voting places, and the trend continued.
We took the lead at first. We were ahead by the time we received the results from about 2,550 polling places. But by the time we arrived at roughly 8,000 polling places, the tide had swung against us, and it never went back. We realized we had lost by 11:30," he said. Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the NPP, decided to make a concession speech prior to the official declaration by the Electoral Commission because of this early indication of defeat. The National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by former President John Dramani Mahama, received 56.55% of the legitimate votes and won the election. Twelve other contenders split the remaining votes, with Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia coming in second with 41.61%.