Former President John Dramani Mahama has received calls to change the name of the seat of government from the current "Jubilee House" back to its original "Flagstaff House."

This request follows his announcement to restore the original names of public universities previously renamed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

In welcoming Mr Mahama’s decision to restore the original names, Builsa South Member of Parliament, Dr Clement Apaak, said: “Seated behind him [JM] during his interaction with stakeholders in the Zuarungu Constituency, I leapt with joy when he announced that he would restore the original names of the universities renamed by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.”

“I have no doubt that Operation Restoration will include the seat of government. Flagstaff House it was, and so would it be again. Our history will definitely be restored,” he wrote on his X platform.

Mahama emphasized that the current names would be assigned to significant infrastructure within the universities.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer asserted that every public university was initiated and built by the NDC, highlighting the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) practice of renaming these institutions.

“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 while addressing party supporters, chiefs, and students at Zuarungu in the Upper East Region.

Mr. Mahama, in expressing his intention to revert the names of public universities, mentioned that the current names would be allocated to notable infrastructure within the institutions.

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) emphasized that the NDC had initiated and constructed every public university.

It is noteworthy that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo renamed the Wa campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) after Simon Diedong (SD) Dombo, a politician affiliated with the United Party tradition.