In a televised address to the nation at 11 a.m. local time, Prime Minister Naoto Kan pleaded for calm as he announced that radiation had spread from the reactors.
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But in the end both parties' appeals for calm were respected and, crucially, Mr Akufo-Addo quickly conceded defeat after the final result was declared.
The speaker of parliament, who is a leading rival of Karzai, and the chief justice of the Supreme Court also called for calm and for an investigation into the day's events.
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