According to him, affirmation supports the affirmation that the associates of the Big Six did not assignment calm and were not accumbent in their following of Ghana's independence
He declared the Founders' Day abstraction as accidental and claimed it was created by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to ensure his ancestor and uncles were placed on the aforementioned akin as Kwame Nkrumah
"This absolutely causeless and backward-looking agitation was instigated by the accepted government as allotment of a angle to advantage the roles of the ancestors of the two best politically able bodies in Ghana today. So, President Akufo-Addo wants Edward Akufo-Addo fabricated a architect of Ghana and Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta wants William Ofori-Atta fabricated a architect of Ghana," he said
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Pulse Ghana "As I accept aloof noted, your affair is self-answering. 'The Allegory of the Big Six' agency absolutely that; the Big Six is a myth. And the 'Real Founder's Day' agency that today is the Real Founder's Day, and that, as the announcement is acclimated in the singular, there is abandoned one Architect and not abounding founders
"It is accurate that there were abounding bodies and organisations that contributed to the ability struggle. From Nkrumah; through the Big Six, chiefs, axial abstracts in business and lawyers; to ex-servicemen, bazaar women, and balustrade boys, anniversary played actual different and important roles in the struggle, and we accept not abandoned them. That is why we bless them on Ability Day every distinct year
"Founder's Day, however, charge be aloof for the African of the 20th Century, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Full stop
JB Danquah's 1951 letter ejecting Kwame Nkrumah's ability move emerges: 'It's a bent conspiracy' Pulse Ghana "There was no Big Six. The Six never saw themselves as a assemblage and they did not act as a unit. Indeed, back the temperature became hot, the associates of the Big Six about angry adjoin one addition in a appearance that abandoned any affairs for unitary, circumscribed activity of the array that could actualize a Big Six
"A abysmal account of the Watson Commission Report reveals that the added bristles abhorrent Nkrumah for the contest arch up to their arrest and banned of the plan of activity he developed, circulated, activated, and monitored for the actual accomplishment of freedom for Ghana. The catechism I ask is this: how can you apprehend to be honoured for the ability of Ghana in 1957 back you did not appetite that ability to appear at that time?" he quizzed
Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has dedicated his accommodation to convention the Founders' Day celebration, acquainted that Kwame Nkrumah abandoned cannot be accustomed with the foundation of Ghana
Speaking on the amount at the chief citizens' bologna at the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo noted, "I apperceive that there are some who catechism the commemoration - that is 4th August as Founders Day, because they accept that we were all comatose in Ghana until the accession of Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP." The Big Six, fabricated up of Kwame Nkrumah, Joseph Boakye ('J.B.') Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, William Ofori-Atta, and Edward Akufo-Addo, are about beheld as the face of Ghana's modern-nationalism action that ultimately resulted in the ability of the country