705 More than 48 hours after the close of voting last Monday, the patience of Ghanaians, who had waited anxiously for the results of the presidential poll, was rewarded when the Electoral Commission (EC) declared the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President-elect minutes before 6 p.m. yesterday. It was a nation in waiting when the EC Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, who is also the Returning Officer for the presidential election, took her seat at the EC Headquarters in Accra to make the historic declaration: “Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, on the basis of the foregoing election results, and by the power vested in me as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana and Returning Officer for the presidential election, it is my duty and honour to declare Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President-elect of the Republic of Ghana.”