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Kufuor promised smooth transition

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    Ghana’s New Patriotic Party flag bearer, John Kufuor, who emerged winner in the country’s presidential elections, has been promised a smooth transition into office by the outgoing government of the National Democratic Congress, news reports said on Monday.

    “I wish him well, and I hope that he and his colleagues can deliver on their promises,” outgoing President Jerry Rawlings, whose deputy John Atta-Mills, lost at the polls, was quoted as saying by the French news agency, AFP. Rawlings pledged to “do everything possible to make the transition smooth as well as sharing with them some of the difficulties we have been through”.

    Kufuor won 57 percent of the vote in Friday’s run-off elections against Atta-Mills with 43 percent, ending Rawlings’ 19 years in power. He is due to step down as president on 7 January.

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