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President of the fourth Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has touted the 2020 Presidential elections as free and fair.

According to him, he pledged to accept to be President only in a faily conducted election and, to him, the December 7 elections were never flawed as his main political opponent, former President John Dramani Mahama would have Ghanaians believe.

He said this at Parliament on Tuesday, January 5, during his last State of the Nation Address in his first term of office.

''The constitution demands that we go to the people after four years to ask for a mandate and we must listen to the voice of the people. I said during the election campaign that it is my firm and passionate view that I should only be President in a fairly conducted election which I believe in all sincerity the election of 7th December was.''

He also welcomed his opponent's decision to resort to the Supreme Court to seek second elections.

''I recognize that my main opponent in the election, the former President John Dramani Mahama has gone to the Supreme Court to seek his intervention and grant reliefs that he believes were compromised in the conduct of the elections. It is good for the nation that, in the end, he chose the legal path instead of the pockets of violence that had attended the rejection of results by his party in the period after the elections. We all have to make a deliberate decision to invest in the rule of law and uphold the integrity of the institutions of our State so that no person or group of persons take the law into their own hands with impunity," the President stated.

Ghanaians have given President Nana Akufo-Addo the mandate for a second term in office after voting for him on Monday, December 7, 2020.

The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Jean Mensa, declared President Nana Akufo-Addo President-elect.