The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has threatened to scrap the controversial proposal of August 4 as Founders Day when it wins political power.
This follows a proposal by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government to shift the celebration from the traditional September 21 to August 4 in recognition of the role the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and other nationalist movements played in the country’s independence struggle.
Speaking to the media, the Communications Director of the CPP, Mr Abdul Rauf Kadiri, said the date would be reverted to its original day when the CPP or the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) comes back to power.
Founders Day
Mr Kadiri said, “This decision is going to be contested and challenged when the CPP comes to power in future. This whole idea of Founders Day, it was the NDC that established it and the NDC didn’t establish it out of ignorance, they were very clear, they knew why they did that so I believe even if the CPP doesn’t come to power tomorrow and the NDC comes back to power, because they are in tune with the history of our country, that decision is going to be challenged and it will be reversed and we want to also actually make it quite clear that there can be no founders in this country.
“For example, when we talk of the foundation of Ghana, you cannot take it from the Aborigines Right Protection Society because if we are going into the history of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, that society was formed to protect communal land. Now, the Ghana that Kwame Nkrumah founded, which includes Northern Region and parts of Trans Volta Togoland, was that the land that the Aborigines Right Protection Society fought for? So the NPP can go ahead with the move but that move will be reversed. It will be challenged and when it’s challenged, we will succeed,” he stressed.
Relatedly, a leading member of the CPP, Madam Rodalyne Ayarna, has sharply disagreed with President Akufo-Addo's August 4 Founders Day proposal.
Madam Ayarna said there was only one founder of Ghana and history should remain so.
She accused President Akufo-Addo of perpetrating a family agenda to “distort Ghana's history.”
President Akufo-Addo is proposing a legislation to Parliament to designate August 4 and September 21 as public holidays.
August 4 will be observed as Founders Day, while September 21 will also be celebrated as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.
A statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, said the nation's first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, played an outstanding role in the attainment of independence, hence the need to commemorate him by designating his birthday as the permanent day for his remembrance.
Source: Daily Graphic
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CPP and NDC please answer this question for me. how do you find something which was already there? Kwame Nkrumah left the Gold Coast to study in America and came back in 1948. Then in 1957 Ghana got independence, so how did he find Ghana? It doesn't make sense, does it?
I wonder if Mr. Kadiri and his CPP are living in real times. The CPP has been effectively dismembered and cut to its current size - through the PNDC to the NDC. Please, assess your situation and judge how soon the CPP can come to power. Better bring your minds to the table now and let's set the historical records straight, not holding on to an emotional thread of history that saps all your energies. You may achieve more than your father did but you don't discount your father's mentorship in helping you make it big in life. Nkrumah could have remained in the United States of America for God knows how long had it not been for the vision of the UGCC guys. Wise up, please, CPP. Don't let the NDC take your centre stage!!!
Oooh CPP how can a dead party win power? Which year in future will CPP win power? funny !!!!!!!!
Ndc ple are very ***barred word***. They said nkrumah founded ghana but will not accept that rawlings founded ndc. They celebrating a dead 'founder' and trying to kill a living one. Evil ple.
Oooh!!! CPP. I pity you. When will you cometo power? Youmight nwill not see that day until the earth is no more. You live in a ***barred word*** paradise if you think CPP will ever cometo power. Nkrumah died with his party. It will never wake up again. Have you ever seen a party formed by one person survived? It's never happened. NDC is surviving because Rawlings still lives. NDC is on it's way to the abyss. I can assure you. NDC will die the moment the founder dies and it will be a forgotten story.NO PARTY FORMED BY ONE PERSON HAS EVER SURVIVED. iT WILL SOON HAPPEN TO MUGABE OF ZIMBABWE IF HE DIES. HISPARTY WILL NOTSURVIVE LIKE CPP.
You can go ahead and scrap it if you manage to win a single seat in parliament ok. As for winning power, you'll die without seeing that happen. Funny bunch of jokers.