The National Democratic Congress' (NDC) Professional Forum has appealed to the government to consider renaming the Kotoka International Airport.

In a statement issued on Monday and signed by the group's Global President, Ambassador Sam Pee Yalley, the group wants the facility to be named after Ghana's first President ,Osaagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. "This call is grounded in constitutional and historical imperatives.

The Forum holds that naming the airport after Lt.

General Emmanuel Kotoka, who led the coup that overthrew Ghana's first president, Dr.