A contender at Saturday's National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential primaries Prof. Joshua Alabi has laughed off his humiliating loss saying the margin by which John Mahama won the polls was extremely shocking.

Certified results from the Electoral Commission show that John Mahama secured an overwhelming 213,487 votes representing 95.23 percent of the total valid votes cast with the other six contenders managing with about 4 percent.

According to Prof. Alabi, it was overly surprising that the Former President beat himself and the other contestants in such a manner.

“The results indicate that the former President has won. I have called to congratulate him; We just cracked jokes and I told him that the gap was too much and that he shouldn’t have done that,” he said in a statement.

The former Vice-Chancellor of University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA) who came second in the polls with 3,404 votes representing 1.52%, in an interview said although he lost with a huge margin, he was not disappointed because anything in an election was possible and that he prepared himself adequately for the unexpected.
“How do you go into a contest and expect such gap; then you wouldn’t have wasted your time and money. I am not disappointed. When you are going into a contest; you should know that there is that possibility of losing so you plan for that,” he added.

Prof. Alabi concluded that the result was indicative of the overwhelming endorsement of the Former President, and there were no qualms whatsoever.