{"id":420703,"date":"2017-09-21T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/21\/mahama-eulogizes-ghanas-founder-kwame-nkrumah\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:41:58","slug":"mahama-eulogizes-ghanas-founder-kwame-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/21\/mahama-eulogizes-ghanas-founder-kwame-nkrumah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama eulogizes \u2018Ghana\u2019s founder\u2019, Kwame Nkrumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/ghana-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/John-Mahama.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"470\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/xJohn-Mahama-696x470.jpg.pagespeed.ic.RDgLF_G8VU.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"John Mahama\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"2590421446\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former President John Mahama believes that Ghana\u2019s first president, Kwame Nkrumah founded Ghana and must be given the due recognition on his birthday, September 21.<\/p>\n<p>His posture comes at a time when the New Patriotic Party have cancelled the former government\u2019s decision to celebrate September 21 as Founder\u2019s Day and has rather set August 4, as founders\u2019 day to recognize all who helped Ghana to attain independence.<\/p>\n<p>John Mahama who has confessed his leanings towards the Nkrumahist ideology said in a statement on his Facebook page on Wednesday said \u201cOsagyefo\u2019s emergence as the Founder of modern Ghana and an international symbol of freedom was not by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He accused certain elements of making frantic attempts to revise Ghana\u2019s history in a way to make nothing of Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt remains a dark irony of our history that, the very political tradition which conspired to truncate his unparalleled vision on 24th February 1966, is today seeking to revise Ghana\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an indisputable fact that Nkrumah was the critical spark that put Ghana on a high-velocity path to independence\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo, whose political history stems from the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), formed on August 4, 1947 to bring about Ghanaian independence, stirred controversy when in his presidential inauguration address when he suggested that members of the UGCC including his father Edward Akudo-Addo and uncle, J.B Danquah were the main brains behind Ghana\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p>Many, including the Chairman of the CPP, Prof. Edmund Delle, accused him of distorting the country\u2019s history but members of the NPP argued that the achievement of the Kwame Nkrumah was only because of the exposure and support he had received from the UGCC before he broke away to establish his Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP).<\/p>\n<p>John Mahama, who has not directly commented on the controversy eulogized Kwame Nkrumah ahead of the celebration of his birthday, September 21.<\/p>\n<p>Read John Mahama\u2019s message below:<\/p>\n<p>On the 21st day of September, I join millions all over the world to remember Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah- the Founder of Ghana, a global icon and the BBC Listeners \u201cMan of the Millennium\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Osagyefo\u2019s emergence as the Founder of modern Ghana and an international symbol of freedom was not by accident. He was a Pan-Africanist, a philosopher, a writer, and a visionary who matched his words with actions.<\/p>\n<p>His towering personality is still recognized in Ghana and beyond.<br \/>It remains a dark irony of our history that, the very political tradition which conspired to truncate his unparalleled vision on 24th February 1966, is today seeking to revise Ghana\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The song \u201cKwame Nkrumah never dies\u201d has proved true not in the sense of his immortality but in the fact that his name will continue to be written in letters of gold whenever the history of Ghana, Africa and the world is recounted.<\/p>\n<p>It is an indisputable fact that Nkrumah was the critical spark that put Ghana on a high velocity path to independence.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Founder\u2019s Day Fellow Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Mahama believes that Ghana\u2019s first president, Kwame Nkrumah founded Ghana and must be given the due recognition on his birthday, September 21. His posture comes at a time when the New Patriotic Party have cancelled the former government\u2019s decision to celebrate September 21 as Founder\u2019s Day and has rather set August 4, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama eulogizes \u2018Ghana\u2019s founder\u2019, Kwame Nkrumah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/21\/mahama-eulogizes-ghanas-founder-kwame-nkrumah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mahama eulogizes \u2018Ghana\u2019s founder\u2019, Kwame Nkrumah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former President John Mahama believes that Ghana\u2019s first president, Kwame Nkrumah founded Ghana and must be given the due recognition on his birthday, September 21. 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