In 2007, this town was named by the legislative instrument (L.I) 1853 as the capital of the then newly created Atwima Kwanwoma District.

The matter travelled for five years and in May 2012, the Supreme court of Ghana quashed the Parliament's decision and restored Twedie as the capital of the Atwima Kwanwoma District.

[2] In 2017, the government decided to carry out the supreme Court's decision of May 2012 to relocate the administrative capital from Atwima Foase to Twedie.

This angered the Chiefs and residents of Atwima Foase which sparked of fierce agitations leading to the death of four (4) and several others sustaining various degrees of injuries.

Twedie lies in the forest zone and has vast track of arable land and favourable rainfall patterns.