The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has accused the New Patriotic Party and President Akufo-Addo of whitewashing the country’s political history.
The accusation by the CPP follows President Akufo-Addo’s address to the nation on the founder’s day on August 3 where he claimed that Nkrumah was not the only man to have founded Ghana.
He said: “I speak to you this evening, rejecting completely, the notion that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah’s contributions to our independence are undeniable, it is important to acknowledge for ourselves that respect that the struggle for our nation’s freedom was a collective effort spanning several generations.”
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However, the CPP has taken exception to the President’s comment. In a statement responding to President Akufo-Addo, the CPP said the President is only massaging facts about Ghana’s history for his own “parochial interests.”
The party maintained that its founder and Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah founded Ghana and “no amount of rejection by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo can change that.”
“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 on August 4 reacting to President Akufo-Addo’s comment that he cannot accept Ghana was founded by one person.
