Should the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) win back power in the future, indications are that it will reverse the changes the governing New Patriotic Party plans to make to Founder’s Day, which is observed on Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday.<\/p>\n
The NDC,\u00a0known for its support for Nkrumaist ideals, deems this move as an attempt to distort Ghana’s by enforcing the idea that Ghana had multiple founders.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”XaydP2JRP0c4Bm3r9f0cQSa1a6O5zf1g”]The NDC\u2019s Organising Secretary, Kofi Adams, noted to Citi News<\/strong> that\u00a0\u201cit must be made very clear that a future government, that is not an NPP government will correct this distortion. If they ever attempt to distort this information, it will be corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n The change is only a proposal as yet, but but the September 21 Founder’s Day instituted by the NDC in 2012, has been changed to\u00a0Nkrumah Memorial Day, via an executive instrument by President Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n August 4, the Founders Day date, is noted as the date for the formation of the\u00a0United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in 1947 by\u00a0J.B. Danquah and George Alfred \u201cPaa\u201d Grant, two forebears of the NPP tradition as currently constituted.<\/p>\n The NDC has served notice it will protest on September 21, to register its discontent with the government’s change of the Founders Day.<\/p>\n \u201cAny attempt to force on us some founders will be resisted by all progressive forces in this country. Ghana\u2019s founding president\u2019s birthday is 21st<\/sup>\u00a0of September. That day has been recognized by even the African Union,\u201d Mr. Adams declared.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not just demonstrating; we are giving indications that, true Ghanaians, Ghanaians with consciences understand and believe that many persons played roles in bringing us independence but Kwame Nkrumah was on top of it and that day has been recognized by Ghanaians and has been recognized by the African Union.\u201d<\/p>\n The NDC government in 2012, earmarked September 21, Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s birthday, as Founder\u2019s Day, sparking the debate over Ghana\u2019s founders and concerns that other key figures in the fight for independence were being sidelined.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Should the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) win back power in the future, indications are that it will reverse the changes the governing New Patriotic Party plans to make to Founder’s Day, which is observed on Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday. The NDC,\u00a0known for its support for Nkrumaist ideals, deems this move as an attempt to distort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[11255,3,129],"yoast_head":"\n