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| Nana Akufo-Addo has used social media, among other strategies, to connect with voters |
From The Times (South Africa): "His rimless spectacles and full, round face are well known in this west African nation, with 'Nana', as he is commonly known, having previously been attorney general, foreign minister and presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) he still leads.
In the 2008 polls, he fell just short of a first round win, taking 49.1% of the vote, then lost in the second round by some 40,000 votes to former president John Atta Mills, who died in July.
He will be seeking a different outcome in what are expected to also be tight elections on Friday."
More about Mr. Akufo-Addo: "Born in the east into a prominent family, his father was Ghana's president when the job was a ceremonial post
— Akufo-Addo earned a law degree in the UK and later worked in Paris, where he became fluent in French. Between 1966 and 1992 Ghana was under military rule, aside from a few short-lived civilian governments, and Akufo-Addo gained fame for his battles against dictatorship, including political organising and fighting human rights cases in court."
