The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has reiterated his pledge to reverse the names President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo gave some public universities in the country if he is re-elected as president in the 2024 polls.

According to Mr. Mahama, it is unacceptable that the NPP government, which has not built any universities in the country, keeps renaming the existing ones.

This comment follows the renaming of some public universities by the President when he assumed office.

Among the public universities whose names have been changed are: the Wa Campus of the University of Development Studies (UDS), renamed after Simon D. Dombo, and the Navrongo Campus, renamed after C.K. Tedam, both of whom are prominent figures in the NPP’s Danquah-Busia-Dombo political tradition.

In 2018, President Akufo-Addo also renamed the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) to the George Grant University of Mines and Technology with other tertiary institutions under consideration for their names to be changed by the government.

But addressing NDC supporters at the party’s manifesto launch in Winneba, Central Region, Mr. Mahama declared that the public universities would return to their original names.

“We shall reverse the names of public universities re-named by the NPP to reflect the core mandate of those universities,” he stressed.

Watch the former President's full address