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Provisional results collated so far in the just ended primaries of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) by peacefmonline.com, indicate that former President John Dramani Mahama has taken a rather commanding lead.

By Peacefmonline.com projections, the former president will win by a landslide. This is way beyond what some pollsters and political watchers had anticipated.

Results from 156 constituencies out of 275 gathered so far, puts Mr Mahama ahead with 124,344 votes representing 92.77%.

He has had a clean sweep of all the constituencies bar one; the Nadowli Kaleo constituency where he was upstaged by Hon Alban Sumana Bagbin. Interestingly, that happens to be the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament's backyard.

Mr Mahama's closest challengers lag so far behind one wonders if really they did campaign or their mode of campaigning had any real impact.

The former president is followed by Joshua Alabi and Alban Bagbin, who polled 2,834 votes representing 2.11% and 2,565 votes representing 1.91%, respectively.

About 260,000 delegates took part in today’s primaries to choose a candidate to lead the party in 2020.

In all seven aspirants contested namely: Mr. Goosie Tanoh, a businessman, Former President John Dramani Mahama, Professor Joshua Alabi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies and Mr. Alban Sumanu Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

The rest are Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, a Former Minister of Education and Trade, Mr Sylvester Mensah, a former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority and Alhaji Nurudeen Iddrisu, a businessman.