Speaking on the August 8, 2024 copy of Good Morning Ghana on Accra-based Metro TV, Pratt questioned the president's motives
"I am absolutely afraid that a agitation like this will be started at this time of our civic activity aback aggregate is activity haywire. I was apprehensive what the admiral was gluttonous to accumulation from starting such a causeless debate
"At this moment, what is the significance? Nkrumah was not the sole architect of Ghana, so why does it matter? How does this appulse inflation, ascent prices, and the actuality that it was the admiral who started this agitation is absolutely concerning. There are abounding added issues the admiral could focus on, so why burn this debate?" he pondered
Pratt declared that the affair of who founded Ghana has already been acclimatized by historians
"This agitation has been acclimatized by historians, by addendum area will this altercation end? Are we activity aback to the Aborigines Right Protection Society or the canicule of Yaa Asantewaa? Area does it alpha and area does it end, if everybody who fabricated a addition to the attempt to attain ability is mentioned, area will it stop?", he quizzed
In his abode to Ghanaians on August 3, 2024, to admire Founders' Day, Admiral Akufo-Addo accustomed the cogent role of the country's aboriginal president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, in the adventure for abandon but emphasized that Ghana was not founded by one being alone
"It is best adapted that we accept called this date to honour their [the founding fathers] sacrifices, their resilience, and their able adherence to the ethics of abandon and justice. I allege to you this black abnegation absolutely the angle that Ghana was founded by one man
"Whilst Kwame Nkrumah's contributions to our ability are actual and unassailable, it is important to accede for our address that the attempt for our nation's abandon was a aggregate accomplishment spanning several generations," he remarked
The president's animadversion accept sparked advancing debate, with abounding criticizing him for distorting Ghana's history
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