20/12/2025
The Akufo-Addo administration did not rename or arbitrarily change the names of existing universities. Rather, it developed and upgraded satellite campuses into full-fledged autonomous universities and, in doing so, named them after prominent sons of the land in their respective regions. Notable examples include S. D. D***o University of Business and Integrated Development Studies in the Upper East Region and C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences in the Upper West Region.
These were acts of institution-building and national honour, not political vanity.
In contrast, the NDC and former President John Dramani Mahama have made campaign promises to rename these universities, just as he openly promised to pack the Supreme Court with NDC-aligned lawyers and “reset” the judiciary. This pattern reveals a troubling mindset—not governance for national progress, but a deliberate attempt to erase every legacy of the NPP, nothing more and nothing less.
If renaming institutions is truly about correcting historical wrongs, then why is the NDC not proposing to revert Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) back to its former name, University of Science and Technology (UST)? The selective outrage exposes the inconsistency and political motivation behind these calls.
This sets a very dangerous precedent. A nation that fails to honour its heroes is a nation that weakens its own identity. If today universities can be renamed simply because a different government commissioned them, tomorrow national monuments, institutions, and historical landmarks may suffer the same fate.
Such a path threatens national continuity and undermines respect for history. Ghana must rise above partisan erasure and protect the legacies of those who shaped our republic.