Other candidates include Nana Kwame Bediyaka, a businessman popular with young voters, and Alan Kyerematen, who quit the ruling NPP last year.
About 19 million Ghanaians are registered to vote.
The man is guaranteed to be the next president again, despite the fact that Ghana has recently introduced tougher legislation to increase the number of women on the front lines of politics.
The only female presidential candidate in this election, Akua Donkor of the Ghana Freedom Party, died in October. However, her name will still be on the ballot because the candidate chosen to succeed her was disqualified.
In Saturday’s general election, voters in 275 constituencies across the country choose their members of parliament.
Since the return of multiparty politics in Ghana in 1992, only candidates from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) have won the presidency.
No party has ever won more than two consecutive terms in power.
Voters have a 10-hour window to cast their ballots on Saturday – polls open at 07:00 GMT and close at 17:00.
The results will be summarized within three days.
To win the first round, a presidential candidate must win more than 50% of the vote. Otherwise, the first two contenders will take part in the second round of voting, which will take place at the end of December.
As the election campaign drew to a close on Friday, Bawumia said of his main rival: “It is clear that despite the challenges we have had, we have performed better than John Dramani Mahama’s government.”
While Mahama told supporters “it’s a choice between the Ghana we have today and the Ghana we want together. A Ghana of opportunity, prosperity and justice for all.”
Ghanaians have been hit particularly hard by inflation in recent years, which peaked at 54.1% in 2022. Although it has declined since then, many thousands of people have fallen into poverty and living standards have deteriorated. says the World Bank, external.
In the same year, Ghana declared a debt default the government is still in protracted negotiations with international creditors to try to restructure the loans.
High unemployment – especially among young people, whose views can have a big impact on election results.
Additional reporting by Damian Zane
