In his 2024 Founders' Day abode on Saturday, August 3, Mr Akufo-Addo objected to the affirmation that Ghana was founded by Dr Kwame Nkrumah
In 2019, Parliament anesthetized a law establishing August 4 as Founders' Day to honour the aggregate efforts of those who contributed to Ghana's ability struggle, while anecdotic September 21 as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day
This accommodation sparked protests from some individuals and groups who accept in Nkrumah's atypical role in the country's founding
"I allege to you this evening, abnegation completely, the angle that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah's contributions to our ability are undeniable, it is important to accede for ourselves that account that the attempt for our nation's abandon was a aggregate accomplishment spanning several generations," the admiral said in his broadcast
"The accumulation of the Aborigines Rights Protection, the British West African Nation Congress, the United Gold Coast Convention, the assignment of endless unsung heroes, and the adamant spirit of our bodies all played basic genitalia in bringing us to abandon and independence
"Kwame Nkrumah with his absorbing abstracted administration was assuredly a above amateur in the final lap of our adventure to ability and that is why admitting the several adverse things that happened afterwards ability beneath his watch, Parliament in 2019, absitively to memorialise his date of bearing as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the alone 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 abandon and consecutive independence