It's not new for incumbent presidential candidate Martin Amidu to concede defeat before the results are officially announced.

According to former special prosecutor Martin Amidu, Dr. Bawumia's admission of defeat as the incumbent presidential candidate prior to the official announcement of the Electoral Commission's results is not unprecedented in the Fourth Republic. He claims that in the 2000 runoff election, John Evans Atta Mills, the late former president of Ghana and the National Democratic Congress's vice presidential and presidential candidate, did the same.