After years of political activity and a series of defeats, the flag-bearer of the NDC is the President-elect of the Republic of Ghana. “Ladies and gentlemen, on the basis of the official results given, it is my duty to declare Prof. John Evans Atta Mills the president-elect of the Republic of Ghana." After the Tain elections, Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP garnered 4,480,446 representing 49.77 per cent of the total valid votes cast. The figures virtually confirmed Joy FM's projections of the results last Tuesday which attracted widespread condemnation from those who were not favoured by the projections. The station projected Prof. Mills' percentage at 50.23 while the EC gave him 50.24 percent. Nana Akufo-Addo was projected to obtain 49.76 and the EC after collation of the final results gave him 49.77 percent of valid votes cast. President-elect John Evans Atta Mills polled 4,521,032 representing 50.23 per cent of the total votes cast. Declaring the results, the Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan said he looked at evidence of the electoral fraud submitted by both parties. He said the "NDC failed to submit complete sets of polling station by polling station declaration result forms to enable a re-examination of the collated figures for the constituencies in Ashanti that they had complained about". "In the purely electoral matters the commission did not find the evidence provided to be sufficient to invalidate the result." Dr. Afari-Gyan said the evidence submitted by the NPP bordered on criminality and fell outside the remit of the commission. President-elect Prof. Mills would be officially inaugurated on January 7, 2009 when President John Agyekum Kufuor hands over the mantle of Ghana’s leadership to him. Prof. Mills would by this feat make history in the annals of Ghana as the third president of the Republic of Ghana in the Fourth Republic, coming after Jerry John Rawlings and J. A. Kufuor. Story by Malik Abass Daabu