In a series of posts shared on Facebook, Barker-Vormawor debunked all the claims made by Adom-Otchere. Adom-Otchere’s claim of Nkrumah making himself president:On Adom-Otchere’s claim of Nkrumah making himself president, Barker-Vormawor asserted that the mere fact that Nkrumah’s name was in the Constitution did not mean that he had made himself lifetime president. Akufo-Addo unveils statue in honour of JB Danquah“The first daft claim by Paul Adom Otchere is that Nkrumah’s name was written in the 1960 Constitution. If you know anything about the context of the 1960 Constitution, you would know that the referendum to adopt the 1960 Constitution was held together with the first-ever presidential elections in 1960. So, in fact, the 1964 amendments rather fixed a problem in the 1960 Constitution,” Barker-Vormawor wrote.

Source: GhanaWeb February 09, 2026 14:23 UTC