The Gambia's leader Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down, after refusing to accept defeat in elections. (securitykingng.org)
[4] However the former Labour chairman of the council, Andrew Johnson, was defeated in the election in Aughton and Downholland ward after his former seat of Downholland was merged with the more Conservative Aughton in the boundary changes. (en.wikipedia.org)
The NDC suffered a heavy defeat in the elections with President John Mahama losing by over one million votes to the NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to become the first one - term president in the since 1992. (ghanapoliticsonline.com)