#UGDecides: Prince Asumadu emerges victorious in a close race Run-off election for UG SRC President
According to preliminary results, Prince Asumadu, a third-year Public Administration and Sociology student at the University of Ghana, has been voted to lead the Institution’s undergraduate students’ front.
He defeated his rival, Samuel Amos Ofosu, in the presidential run-off on Friday, when all contenders failed to earn the required 50 percent plus one vote.
Prince, who behind Samuel in the first round of the contest, rallied back and won with 7,647 votes, representing 51.6 percent of valid votes cast.
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Samuel Amos Ofosu, well known as Nana B, received 7,156 votes (48.3 percent ).
After Isaac Agyemang defeated Anthony Julius in 2019, Prince Asumadu, who ran with Wisdom Ndukwe as his running mate, will be the next democratically chosen leader of the SRC.
Following delays in revealing the result of this year’s SRC election, residents of Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah Hall pelted stones and broken bottles at each other during Friday’s run-off.
Several students were injured in varying degrees as a result of the incident.
The Electoral Commission was unable to obtain the results of online voters hours after votes had closed and results had been released at the different voting booths on campus.
The Second Deputy EC Chair refused to cooperate, claiming voting anomalies at the Mensah Sarbah polling station.
He caved on Saturday morning, and the results of the online poll were released.
Prince Asumadu’s narrow victory in the online vote clinched the deal.
The University community is relatively calm, and the Electoral Commission has yet to officially publish the results.
How each hall voted in the Presidential run-off
Prince Asumadu, a third-year Public Administration and Sociology student have been voted President of the University of Ghana Students Representative Council.
He defeated his rival, Samuel Amos Ofosu, in the presidential run-off on Friday, when all contenders failed to earn the required 50 percent plus one vote.
Prince, who behind Samuel in the first round of the contest, rallied back and won with 7,647 votes, representing 51.6 percent of valid votes cast.
Samuel Amos Ofosu, well known as Nana B, received 7,156 votes (48.3 percent ).
Here’s how the various halls of residents voted in the run-off election on Friday.
