The animadversion comes afterwards President Akufo-Addo, as allotment of his Founders' Day bulletin on Saturday August 3, 2024 said that he rejects suggestions that it was alone Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who led the country's ability action and founded Ghana
"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 President said
The animadversion has admiring criticism from abounding with Nkrumah's party, the Convention People's Affair (CPP) abnegation that angle from President Akufo-Addo
Other political historians acquire additionally appear at the President for his comment
President Akufo Addo's account comes 5 years afterwards Ghana's Parliament anesthetized a law instituting August 4 as Founders' Day to honour the contributions of all who played a role in Ghana's adventure to independence
In an account with 3FM's Beatrice Adu, Sekou Nkrumah said that the NPP government is still adversity from the pains of the accomplished which is influencing its' accomplishments now
"The President is still active in the affections of the accomplished and still clumsy to let go of what happened in the past. We all accede that Nkrumah led Ghana to independence. People would altercate that others struggled with him. But the point is that he captured power. He led us to independence. So, let's not booty that abroad from him. The big 6, their addition cannot be acknowledged but it was adverse …. three of the big 6, and two absolutely died beneath Nkrumah," he recalled
Sekou added that "…we all acquire the addition that the others made. And actually, they alike arrive him to become the General Secretary of the UGCC. But at the aforementioned time, we don't charge to be petty. I anticipate we should all acceleration aloft that and try to accept our history and the history is for all of us as Ghanaians." Read also: No bulk of bounce by Akufo-Addo can change the actuality that Nkrumah founded Ghana - CPP