According to him, it is accurate in history by alike the opponents of Nkrumah that he (the aboriginal president) was the architect of the country because not alone did he advance for the country's ability but additionally had a duke in it actuality called Ghana.
The historian, who fabricated these animadversion while account from a actual book, acicular out that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had a duke in about all the civic symbols of the country, including its civic anthem, civic flag, and civic crest.
He asserted that the backward Dr. J.B. Danquah, uncle of Admiral Akufo-Addo, whom proponents of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are aggravating to acclaim for the founding of Ghana, played no cogent role in the country's action for independence.
"This book, if I had continued, would acquire told you that JB Danquah was continuing in the army celebratory Kwame Nkrumah and others (during the acknowledgment of Ghana's independence). Again, Nkrumah gave us our civic flag. You will apprehend that he and Madam Theodosia Okoh came calm and again they fabricated the banderole of Ghana. Please, it was not anybody but Nkrumah who looked at the flag. And the woman alike said, 'Let me put in so abounding stars like the American flag' but Nkrumah said, 'I charge alone one, the Black Star'.
"And again for the civic anthem, Philip Gbeho was commissioned by Nkrumah to do it. And again for the civic crest, Amon Nii Quaye was commissioned by Nkrumah to do it. And again on March 6, Kwame Nkrumah mentioned Ghana. JB Danquah was not there to accordance any support. Busia did not appear, alike admitting he was the action leader, because he had accounting to the British not to accordance us independence. He was so afraid to be on the belvedere that day, alike admitting it should acquire been a civic affair," he said in an account on JoyNews on Monday, August 5, 2024.
He added, "And so, if from chic one, FK Buah and all others, including alike Kwame Nkrumah's adversary Adu Boahen, would acquaint us in history that Kwame Nkrumah was the architect of Ghana and our president, whom I adore so much, is cogent us that he was not the founder, I acquire it will be actual abundant an corruption of language."
What Akufo-Addo said:
President Akufo-Addo appear his boldness not to acquire the angle captivated by some Ghanaians that Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is the sole architect of the country.
In his accent advanced of the celebration of Founders' Day on August 4, 2024, Admiral Akufo-Addo said that while Kwame Nkrumah played an basic role in the country's drive appear independence, it is erroneous and bottomless to accordance him the advantage of actuality the architect of Ghana.
"I allege to you this evening, abnegation absolutely the angle that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah's contributions to our ability are undeniable, it is important to accede that the attempt for our nation's abandon was a aggregate accomplishment spanning several generations," the admiral said in his broadcast.
President Akufo-Addo abundant some bodies whom he believes were basic in the action appear ability and deserve to be acclaimed alongside Kwame Nkrumah.
"The accumulation of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, the British West African Civic 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 and abstracted leadership, was assuredly a above amateur in the final lap of our adventure to independence. That is why, admitting the several adverse things that happened afterwards ability beneath his watch, Assembly 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."
Parliament anesthetized a law in 2019 establishing August 4 as Founders' Day and September 21 as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.
While August 4 aims to bless the aggregate works that culminated in Ghana's independence, September 21 is aloof for Kwame Nkrumah.
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