The whole world knows Nkrumah founded Ghana – CPP replies Akufo-Addo
The whole world knows Nkrumah founded Ghana – CPP replies Akufo-Addo
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has accused President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of massaging facts about Ghana’s independence and who founded Ghana.
The CPP said that the whole world knows Ghana was founded by the First President Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
“To reject The Osagyefo as the Founder of Ghana on the weak basis that ‘the struggle for our nation’s freedom was a collective effort spanning several generations’ is indeed an unfortunate gaffe, and it would have been thought His Excellency would have been more selective with his words, in these last days of the NPP administration, especially after mistakenly referring to His Excellency the former President John Dramani Mahama as his vice only a couple of days ago. The NPP is indeed a party of inaccuracies and massaging of facts on all fronts.
“The whole world knows who the Osagyefo is, and that he founded this country and named it Ghana, after the old Ghana Empire, on the eve of our independence of 6th March 1957. This was after countless attempts were made by the antecedents of the NPP, made up of Dr. J.B. Danquah and other elements of the UP tradition, to stop Ghana from gaining independence,” the CPP said in a statement reacting to President Akufo-Addo’s comment that he cannot accept Ghana was founded by one person.
“The formation of the Aborigines Rights Protection, the British West African Nation Congress, the United Gold Coast Convention, the work of countless unsung heroes, and the tenacious spirit of our people all played vital parts in bringing us to freedom and independence.
“Kwame Nkrumah with his charismatic visionary leadership was undoubtedly a major actor in the final lap of our journey to independence and that is why despite the several unfortunate things that happened after independence under his watch, Parliament in 2019, decided to memorialise his date of birth as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the only Ghanaian so far to be so honoured in our history,” he argued that groups including Joseph Casely Hayford and Thomas Hutton-Mills’ British West African Nation Congress and several others contributed to Ghana’s freedom and subsequent independence.
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