{"id":109181,"date":"2025-12-30T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=109181"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:10:30","slug":"dont-lower-the-bar-because-things-were-worse-before-kojo-yankson-on-mahama-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=109181","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t lower the bar because things were worse before \u2013 Kojo Yankson on Mahama gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kojo Yankson, co-host of the Joy Super Morning Show, has cautioned against public complacency in holding President John Dramani Mahama accountable, warning that post-election excitement must not weaken democratic scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 \u201c2025 in Review, Yankson said the optimism that greeted President Mahama\u2019s inauguration, following the 2024 general elections, may have led to a softer approach to criticism from the public and commentators alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, John Mahama\u2019s first year started with all the pomp and promise of that inauguration ceremony because we had been traumatised, and anything would have been better than what we had been through. So, we were excited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Yankson, that collective relief and excitement translated into widespread support for the new administration, but also created a risk of lowered expectations and reduced accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave him all the support because we expect a lot from him. But it also meant that we have been, in my view, a little bit lax in criticising President Mahama,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

He argued that while many Ghanaians are keen to justify the overwhelming mandate given to Mahama in the December 2024 polls, this should not prevent citizens and the media from demanding higher standards of governance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to look back at the choice we made overwhelmingly in the 2024 election and say we made a bad choice,\u201d Yankson said, adding that awareness of the country\u2019s previous governance challenges should not excuse underperformance.<\/p>\n

Yankson stressed that democratic accountability requires more than comparing one administration to another, warning against celebrating marginal improvements simply because the past was worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must hold leaders to a standard. We shouldn\u2019t say that as long as he got 10 out of 100 and the last guy got two out of 100, we\u2019re happy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 \u201c2025 in Review, Yankson said the optimism that greeted President Mahama\u2019s inauguration, following the 2024 general elections, may have led to a softer approach to criticism from the public and commentators alike.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1969,36,1813,14711,1883,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hp-news-3","category-john-mahama","category-joy-news","category-kojo-yankson","category-national","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}