Renowned legal practitioner and historian Yaw Anokye Frimpong has stated that there is no such thing as the Danquah-Busia Tradition in Ghana's political history.
According to him, the tradition is a fiction created by a faction within the current (NPP) to counter Ashanti dominance in Ghanaian politics.
Anokye Frimpong, speaking in an interview on Onua TV over the week, suggested that the Akyem faction of the , which was not part of the United Party (UP) or the National Liberation Movement (NLM), fabricated the concept of a Danquah-Busia Tradition to gain relevance. "When secession agitations started immediately after the 1951 election, around 1952, J.B.
Danquah was still alive; he died in 1965.