The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has added its voice to the assertion that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is an apogee of massaging facts and presenting inaccuracies at all fronts.
This comes a day after the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) flag bearer, John Dramani Mahama, had described the office of President Akufo-Addo as the “headquarters of misinformation”.
According to the CPP, the President’s claim that Ghana was not founded by one person but by the collective efforts of many which has spanned through generations depict how misinformed the NPP could be.
In a statement issued by the CPP Sunday, August 04, 2024, and signed by the Chairperson of CPP’s Independent Committee, Wing Commander Patrick Nelson Sogbodjor, it says Akufo-Addo’s rejection of Nkrumah as the founder of Ghana is an “unfortunate gaffe”.
In his 2024 Founders’ Day address Saturday, August 03, 2024, President Akufo-Addo insisted that one person cannot take the credit as the founder of the nation relegating the collective efforts of others from different generations.
“I speak to you this evening, rejecting completely, the notion that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah’s contributions to our independence are undeniable, it is important to acknowledge for ourselves that respect that the struggle for our nation’s freedom was a collective effort spanning several generations,” the president said in his broadcast.
“The formation of the Aborigines Rights Protection, the British West African Nation Congress, the United Gold Coast Convention, the work of countless unsung heroes, and the tenacious spirit of our people all played vital parts in bringing us to freedom and independence.
“Kwame Nkrumah with his charismatic visionary leadership was undoubtedly a major actor in the final lap of our journey to independence and that is why despite the several unfortunate things that happened after independence under his watch, Parliament in 2019, decided to memorialise his date of birth as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the only Ghanaian so far to be so honoured in our history,” he argued that groups including Joseph Casely Hayford and Thomas Hutton-Mills’ British West African Nation Congress and several others contributed to Ghana’s freedom and subsequent independence,” the President stated.
But in reaction, the CPP says it expected the President to be wary of his words in his last days of his administration.
“To reject The Osagyefo as the Founder of Ghana on the weak basis that “the struggle for our nation’s freedom was a collective effort spanning several generations” is indeed an unfortunate gaffe, and it would have been thought His Excellency would have been more selective with his words, in these last days of the NPP administration, especially after mistakenly referring to His Excellency the former President John Dramani Mahama as his vice only a couple of days ago. The NPP is indeed a party of inaccuracies and massaging of facts on all fronts,” portions of the statement indicated.
