The Director of Legal Affairs for the United Party (UP), Andrew Appiah-Danquah, has given his assessment of Ghana’s political architecture prior to the December 2024 elections.
According to him, Ghana’s political integrity had been compromised ahead of the exercise that brought a change of government a year ago.
Assessing the state of affairs in Ghana a year after the December 7, 2024 polls, Appiah-Danquah said the political, economic, social, and educational agenda in the constitution, which is being worked towards, were all in a comatose state before the elections.
“Going into the 2024 elections, in my opinion, our politics had lost credibility,” he said on the BigIssue segment on TV3’s NewDay on Monday, December 8, 2025.
He believes Ghana was failing as a nation prior to the change of government, indicating that the political agenda of the state, for instance, had been tainted with tribal disintegration.
The legal practitioner says although Ghana is comprised of various ethnicities with a unified agenda to form one nation, the NPP’s 2024 campaign agenda was meant to bring division, looking at the trajectory of its activities.
“As of 2024, we were failing radically as a nation. Politically, you had a nation where, contrary to the agenda of this country, where the agenda was to create a situation where Ghana is an amalgamation of different cultures, we are able to aggregate and strengthen that ‘One Ghana’ policy,” he stated.
However, Appiah-Danquah said “we had a situation where we were being disintegrated along tribal lines” citing how the NPP handled its internal politics, particularly the primaries, as a factor.
He explained that the party “advanced a campaign that was very tribal in nature, religious in nature” saying the approach was aimed at “attacking that political genre that sought to unite the people of Ghana despite our tribal diversity.”
Today, Monday, December 8, 2025, marks exactly one year since President John Dramani Mahama became President-elect of Ghana after the December 7 election that saw the NPP lose power. Ghanaians have been reflecting on the performance of the government almost a year since it took over, with many saying there has been an improvement compared to the indices that existed at the time the administration took over.
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