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Ghana's Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday's election and congratulated the opposition candidate, former President John Mahama, on his victory, Azernews reports via BBC.

"The people have voted for change," said Bawumia.

The elections come amid the country's worst economic crisis in a generation, which saw the cost of basic goods shoot up, while young people struggled to get jobs and the country was unable to repay its debts.
Despite Bawumia's concession, no official results have been declared.

The Electoral Commission (EC) said results had been delayed because supporters of the two main parties were impeding the process and it had asked the police to clear the collation centres.

Mahama's supporters have taken to the streets around the country to celebrate, cheering, waving flags, blowing vuvuzelas and spinning motorbikes.

"I'm so excited for this victory," Salifu Abdul-Fatawu told the BBC in the central city of Kumasi.
He said he hoped it would mean that he and his sibling would get jobs, while the price of food and fuel would come down.

Even NPP supporter Nana accepted that "my party is NPP, but whatever they did was not good.

"The system was so bad in an election year and so most people were not happy."