More than half of Ghanaian voters believe the country is on the right track under President John Dramani Mahama, according to fresh polling data that offers the most detailed snapshot yet of the nation’s political mood as attention begins turning, however early, toward the 2028 general elections.
The findings, drawn from a national tracking poll conducted by Global InfoAnalytics and presented by researcher Mussa Dankwah, paint a picture of a president consolidating public confidence — while also revealing the regional fault lines and emerging opposition dynamics that will define the next electoral contest.
Fifty-six percent of voters surveyed said Ghana is moving in the right direction under the Mahama administration — a figure that, in any political environment, represents a meaningful indicator of public sentiment at this stage of a presidential term. The President’s personal job approval ratings were described as strong nationwide, reinforcing the directional finding.
The poll also recorded growing optimism among voters on three fronts that matter enormously to Ghanaians: economic conditions, governance, and anti-corruption efforts. The last of these is particularly noteworthy given the prominence of accountability discourse in Ghanaian public life, and the Mahama administration’s positioning of its ORAL initiative as a flagship anti-graft commitment.
Mahama’s approval cuts across multiple regions and political demographics — a breadth of support that will encourage the governing National Democratic Congress as it looks ahead.
The one significant outlier is the Ashanti Region, historically the NPP’s stronghold, where approval levels remained comparatively lower. That finding will surprise no one familiar with Ghana’s political geography, but the degree of the gap will be worth watching as the administration’s policies continue to roll out.
The 2028 Race: Early Contours
Perhaps the most forward-looking dimension of the poll was its exploration of preferred flagbearers for both major parties ahead of 2028 — an exercise that, while premature in electoral terms, reflects genuine public interest in the succession question.
On the NPP side, former Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia emerged as the leading preferred candidate among respondents — a finding consistent with his profile as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer and its most nationally prominent figure heading into opposition. Whether the party’s internal dynamics ultimately consolidate behind him remains a separate question.
Within the NDC, the polling identified Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang and former Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu among the leading contenders for the party’s future leadership — though with President Mahama only recently returned to office, any internal succession conversation within the NDC remains firmly a background consideration for now.
How the Poll Was Conducted
Global InfoAnalytics employed a mixed methodology for the survey, combining face-to-face interviews, web-based surveys, and telephone polling to capture responses across all regions of Ghana — an approach designed to maximise reach and representativeness in a country with significant variation in connectivity and access across urban and rural populations.
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At this early stage of the electoral cycle, polling data is best read as a barometer of mood rather than a predictor of outcomes. What these numbers do suggest, however, is that the Mahama administration has, at least for now, succeeded in building and sustaining a broad coalition of public confidence — one that spans regions and demographics even as pockets of resistance remain.
With 2028 still years away, the more consequential question is whether that confidence holds as economic pressures, governance challenges, and the inevitable friction of incumbency test the administration in the months and years ahead.