A historian, Kwaku Darko Ankrah, has said that the president erred in selecting August 4 as Founders' Day because the date marks the formation of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). Speaking in an interview with Citinewsroom on August 7, 2024, he described the Akufo-Addo's decision as totally wrong. "The President was totally wrong when he selected August 4, you state August 4, it means that you are truncating the work others have done. The significance of August 4, is the formation of UGCC, it's a political party. Never, how can you use a political party's formation as the foundation of Gold Coast? "Then we should go back to about March 8, 1897, as the formation of Gold Coast, because that is where the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS) was founded to save the lands of this country. For me, I don't understand the August 4," he noted.