The animadversion comes afterwards Admiral Akufo-Addo, as allotment of his Founder's 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 Admiral said
The animadversion has admiring criticism from abounding with Nkrumah's party, the Convention People's Affair (CPP) abnegation that angle from Admiral Akufo-Addo
Other political historians acquire additionally appear at the Admiral 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, "we charge to go aback in history to try to amount out this bearings that we are bent in now. We all apperceive that the United God Coast Convention (which became UP) was the aboriginal political movement in Ghana that array of opened the way for political independence…. we apperceive he (Kwame Nkrumah) bankrupt abroad and formed the CPP…so he afflicted the dynamics then." Sekou Nkrumah He added that the NPP government is still adversity from the pains of the accomplished which is influencing its accomplishments now
"The admiral 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. Ghana is growing. We should be added complete in abutting these things. He (the President) is aggravating to dispense our history," Sekou stated
Sekou Nkrumah 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: Don't alter Ghana's history, Nkrumah is the architect of avant-garde Ghana - Armah-Kofi Buah tells Akufo-Addo