IMANI Africa’s Public Understanding and Literacy for Sentiments and Elections (PULSE) has placed John Dramani Mahama ahead of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in terms of social media reception.
The IMANI PULSE comes ahead of the 2024 polls where Mahama is running on the ticket of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) with Dr. Bawumia being the flag bearer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The Periodic Social Media Sentiment Analysis Report published in December 2023 says sentiments expressed by Ghanaians on John Mahama are favourable than that of Dr. Bawumia.
Per the survey, only 9.74% of posts mentioning Dr. Bawumia or the New Patriotic Party were positive.
However, John Mahama had about 20% of social media posts mentioning him and the NDC to be positive.
IMANI highlighted that the number of posts mentioning the NPP and Dr. Bawumia was four times higher than those mentioning the NDC and Mahama.
