The Director of Legal Affairs for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Godwin Edudzi Tamekloe, has strongly criticised ongoing attempts to conflate the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) with the NDC, describing such efforts as "intellectually dishonest and politically motivated."

In a Facebook post on Monday, June 30, 2025, Mr. Tamekloe questioned how "any decent-minded person" could continue to equate the two distinct political entities when they are clearly not the same.

His remarks come in response to recent comments made during the Martyrs Day commemoration, where some speakers sought to associate the NDC with the PNDC era, particularly in reference to the 1982 murders of three High Court judges and a retired army officer.

“This constant politicisation of a tragic national event is unfortunate. It is done deliberately by individuals who want to score cheap political points using the memory of the murdered judges,” Mr. Tamekloe stated.

He added that the attempt to draw a direct line between the PNDC military government and the current NDC party, which was established as a democratic political organisation in 1992, is "untenable and misleading."

“These are two entirely different bodies, with distinct histories and mandates.

To keep linking them for parochial purposes is not only disingenuous but a clear distortion of our political history,” he noted.

Mr. Tamekloe called for greater national maturity and sensitivity when dealing with matters involving Ghana’s painful past, urging political actors to refrain from manipulating such issues for political gain.