Ghanaians, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, were not asleep when the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and former President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah arrived.
These comments come after his earlier claims that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was not the only founder of Ghana during his speech at the 2024 Founders’ Day address on Saturday, August 3.
President Akufo-Addo has upheld his position in the face of debate from individuals and groups that maintain Nkrumah’s unique role in the country’s founding.
The President said, “I know there are some who question this ceremony that is 4th August as Founders Day because they believe that we were asleep in Ghana until the arrival of Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP,” when hosting the senior citizens to commemorate the 2024 Founders’ Day on Monday in Accra.
“I have already stated my views on that several times including in my speech last Saturday evening. I don’t intend to go over that matter again. Suffice to say I believe that the consensus that parliament arrived at in 2019 honouring Kwame Nkrumah in a memorial day and preserving the historical importance and significance of August 4th in our history is a good consensus and it deserves to last.”
