Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah has reflected on Ghana’s recent political trajectory, describing the period leading up to the 2024 general elections as one of deep national strain that tested the country’s democratic resilience.
Speaking on JoyNews’ 2025 in Review, Braimah said the country had reached a worrying stage where governance challenges were no longer abstract but visibly destabilising.
“I think in terms of governance, we had, to be frank with you, gotten to a point where the country was on the brink,” he stated, pointing to the cumulative effect of economic pressure and public anxiety.
He highlighted the severity of the economic downturn, particularly the sharp depreciation of the cedi, as a moment that underscored how fragile the situation had become. According to him, the crisis was so pronounced that it forced an unusual public intervention from the highest office.
“At some point when the cedi was so bad, the president himself had to make a public appeal to our military not to think about intervening,” Braimah recalled.
Against that backdrop, he argued that the conduct and outcome of the 2024 elections played a crucial role in easing national tension and restoring a measure of calm.
While stopping short of framing the polls as a cure-all, Braimah said they helped reset the country’s political balance. “In the interest of stability and the continuity of our Fourth Republic, what happened by way of the 2024 elections perhaps got us to be stable as a country,” he noted.
