New poll puts Akufo-Addo ahead of Mahama

With 120 days more to the December 7 elections, an online opinion poll indicates that if the elections were held in July, leader of the largest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo would obtain 49% of votes cast while the National
Democratic Congress’ (NDC)
candidate, President John Dramani Mahama, would secure 44% of votes cast. The Progressive People’s Party’s
(PPP) candidate, Dr. Papa Kwesi
Nduom, garnered 6% of the votes
while Ivor Greenstreet, presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), secured 1% of the votes.
The remaining seven presidential
candidates scored zero in the online poll directed by Isma-il Sulaiman and Bernard Boachie-Danquah. They are Dr. Edward Mahama of the People’s National Convention (PNC); Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings of the National Democratic Party (NDP);
Hassan Ayariga of All People's
Congress (APC); Jacob Osei Yeboah, Independent; Akwasi Addae Odike, United People's Party (UPP); Henry Lartey, Great Consolidated People’s Party (GCPP), and Akua Donkor, Ghana Freedom Party. A total of 1,644 Ghanaian adult respondents, aged 18 and above, took part in the poll conducted by Goodman
AMC. It comprises 1,052 likely male voters and 592 likely female voters.