By Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
ACCRA, 14 December 2008: Fuel prices slashed by 17 per cent in Ghana just two weeks to the presidential election run-off.
Political pundits and the opposition have raised eye brows saying it is a strategy to buy votes for the ruling candidate Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The run-off comes on December 28.
Though it is a salvage to both middle and lower class people, the public have welcomed the news with mixed feelings. In public transport people could be heard arguing that the slash could have come way back before the general elections held on December 7 2008.
In the first round of the presidential elections, the opposition candidate, John Atta Mills, came a close second in last Sunday’s presidential election with 47.92 per cent of the vote, according to the latest figures from the Electoral Commission. Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP had 49.13 per cent. He failed to obtain the constitutionally required 50% vote to be declared a president.
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