It appears the support President John Dramani Mahama has enjoyed since his re-election in 2024 is sharply declining as his approval rating has dropped drastically from 68% to 58.9%.
According to a poll conducted by the Institute of Economic Affairs conducted in May 2026 across all sixteen regions of Ghana and covering over 1,000 respondents, puts Mahama’s job approval rating at 58.9% — down from 68% recorded in December 2025. Some 28.4% of respondents disapprove of his performance, while 12.8% expressed no opinion.
The IEA says the more than 30 percentage point gap between approval and disapproval indicates that positive assessments of the President’s performance remain well ahead of critical ones, even as the decline signals a public growing more expectant.
Economy the biggest driver of approval
Among those who approve, the economy is the overwhelming reason. Nearly three in four approvers — 73.5% credit the government’s handling of the economy, followed by road infrastructure at 16.0% and energy and electricity at 2.7%.
The poll is the latest in the IEA’s regular series tracking presidential job performance.
Source:tolonradio.com
