Sentences with phrase «defeat in the elections»

The Gambia's leader Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down, after refusing to accept defeat in elections.

[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.

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.

So, it's a safe bet Espada would either be 1) indicted, or 2) defeated in an election before his fellow Democrats expel him from their ranks, which means this whole thing is mostly just for show and an attempt for the party to try to distance itself from the scandal - scarred senator.

Gbese Mantse Nii Ayi - Bonte II, preceding the December 7 polls swore that he will renounce his stool if the outgoing President John Dramani Mahama is defeated in the elections irrespective of the fact that traditional rulers are not to participate in partisan politics as clarified in the 1992 constitution of Ghana.

Needless to say, Buhari never accepted defeat nor congratulated anyone who defeated him in an election but was indirectly associated with post electoral violence.

After a landslide defeat in the election on 1 May 1997, John Major resigned on the morning of 2 May.

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday, December 9 conceded defeat in the elections and has called his main contender, Nana Akufo - Addo to congratulate him.

While that may qualify as a fairly mild endorsement of a carbon tax, the timing was noteworthy, coming in the late stages of the «fiscal cliff» negotiations and less than two months after Romney's defeat in an election campaign in which he had belittled concerns over climate disruption.

The Gambia's long - term leader Yahya Jammeh says he will step down, after refusing to accept defeat in elections.

Until both major parties are defeated in elections it will only get worse.

Their defeats in the election call into question their strategies and as is usually the case these days, when that happens, the person at the top pays the price.

A mild drama occurred on Friday day at the premises of St Anthony Anglican Church, Igboukwu, Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State when the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Chris Ngige jokingly told the candidate of the Labour Party, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah that he will defeat him in the election.

He said there currently existed in the country a widespread disenchantment with the Buhari government and that he (Atiku) would defeat him in the election.

Never before has a sitting president been defeated in an election.

The governing Labour administration led by Gordon Brown was defeated in the election and lost its overall majority after 13 years in office.

[36] He was defeated in the election.

[4] All of the independent candidates were defeated in the election, which saw an overall turnout of 32.5 %.

When our President His Excellency John Dramani Mahama was calling me to concede defeat in the best tradition of Ghanaian statesmanship, President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia was renouncing the surprising concession of his defeat in elections held a week before.

He lost a job, failed in business twice, was defeated in elections eight times, became bankrupt and incurred a debt which took nearly seventeen years to be repaid, suffered a nervous breakdown and was bed ridden for six months and he had to deal with the loss of the woman he deeply loved (Anne Rutledge).