Victor Owusu was the flagbearer of the Popular Front Party (PFP) in the 1979 election
The family of the late Victor Owusu, a leading figure in the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition, has accused the current leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of deliberately distorting the party’s historical facts to erase his legacy.
In protest, the family has purportedly issued a strongly worded statement, a copy of which has been posted on social media platform X, elaborating on the significant roles the late family member played as a stalwart of Ghana’s political history and a key member of the UP tradition.
In the statement, the family alleged that the NPP has recklessly omitted Victor Owusu’s name, image, and contributions from the party’s official documentation, visual commemorations, and institutional memory.
The family explained that Victor Owusu was the flagbearer of the Popular Front Party (PFP) in the 1979 general elections a party that later metamorphosed into the NPP.
According to the family, the omission of Owusu’ contributions from the NPP’s official documentation, visual commemorations, and institutional memory could not be a mere oversight.
“This is not a matter of simple oversight, it is an act of historical vandalism and intellectual dishonesty that strikes at the very foundation of truth and justice in public memory”. The statement said.
This, they explained, was due to the fact that Victor Owusu was not merely a participant in Ghana’s political history but was a central architect in preserving the democratic ideals that birthed the NPP.
The family’s statement comes on the heels of the party’s delegate conference slated for July 19, 2025, at the University of Ghana Sports Stadium.
According the family’s statement, the Popular Front Party (PFP) was the legitimate and ideological successor of the Progress Party (PP)
“…And it is from the PFP that the NPP emerged after the lifting of the ban on political parties in 1992…[therefore] Any attempt to surgically erase this linkage is historically false, legally flawed, and politically indefensible”. The family posited.
In view of the above, the family demanded an immediate public rectification by the NPP leadership acknowledging Victor Owusu’s pivotal role in the political ancestry of the Party.
Additionally, they demanded full restoration of his name, image, and contribution in all historical records, commemorative platforms, official publications, and educational materials associated with the NPP tradition.
Furthermore, they demanded a formal apology to the family and the people of Agona-Asante, whose pride in the national legacy of their illustrious son cannot be muted by political expediency or selective memory.
STATEMENT OF STRONG PROTEST:
The Unlawful Erasure and Historical Distortion of Victor Owusu’s Legacy from the NPP Political Tradition
We, the family of the late Victor Owusu, former Attorney General of the Republic, Ghana’s distinguished diplomat and barrister of international… pic.twitter.com/aLAcoukkQJ
— Kwaku Amoh-Darteh, Esq. (@kwakuamohdarteh) July 18, 2025
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