The commission says the website is up again after a four-hour outage. An attempt to put up fake results failed.

It urged people to ignore the bogus figures circulating on social media.

President John Mahama is facing a strong challenge from main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo, who’s confidently claiming an outright win.

Wednesday’s election passed off peacefully, but voting was postponed to Thursday in one constituency after voting material failed to arrive on time.

A run-off will be held later in the month if neither of the two main candidates secures more than 50% of the votes.

The campaign was dominated by Ghana’s faltering economy.

In the previous election in 2012, Mahama defeated Akufo-Addo by less than 300 000 votes.

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