Former President John Dramani Mahama has served notice that he will restore the original names of the public universities that have been renamed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He wondered why President Akufo-Addo was much more preoccupied with re-naming Universities than initiating and constructing new ones in addition to improving the infrastructure on the campuses of existing ones.
The former President was of the opinion that the President could have rather given the names of these statesmen to significant infrastructure found on the campuses of these Universities.
The NDC Flagbearer highlighted the track record of the party when it comes to the construction of Universities in the fourth republican dispensation and stated that the NDC has initiated and built every public university constructed in recent times.
President Akufo-Addo said this when he addressed party supporters, chiefs, and students at Zuarungu in the Upper East Region.
“We are known as nation builders because of the number of schools we have built. Every public university was initiated and built by us. All the NPP knows how to do is name universities that people have built.”
“After NDC builds a university, then they will give it the name of one of their heroes or people. We are going to rename the universities. Ghana has many heroes, and not only the heroes of the NPP tradition. “We can name an administration block, hostel, and library after somebody. But the university must reflect its core mandate. And so we will restore the original names, and the names that they have given them will be given to significant infrastructure in the universities.
“And we will add other people and name the infrastructure in the universities after them. But if the university is the University for Development Studies, that is its core mandate. It will be called the University for Development Studies,” he said
It will be recalled that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo renamed the University for Development Studies (UDS), Wa campus after Simon Diedong (SD) Dombo, a politician from the United Party tradition.
Story: Patrick Asford Boadu/Radiogoldlive.com
