The National Democratic Congress (NDC) remembered the 58th anniversary of the overthrow of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. They called the end of Nkrumah’s leadership a shameful day that will always be remembered.
The NDC said the coup on February 24, 1966, stopped Ghana from growing quickly and becoming more industrial.
They also said the founders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) tried to erase Nkrumah’s memory and what he did for Ghana.
The NDC said, “The people who started the NPP wanted to forget Nkrumah and what he did. They tried to make people forget him, but we remember what he did. His work is still important, and we won’t forget him.”
The party wants Ghanaians to say no to anyone who tries to hurt democracy or change what really happened in history. They want people to keep working for a country where everyone can do well, just like Nkrumah wanted.
They said, “We can’t let bad things like this happen again. Ghanaians should not listen to people who don’t care about our country’s progress. They only care about changing history to make themselves look better.”
Below is the NDC’s full press release.
NDC REMEMBERS OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS OVERTHROW 58 YEARS AGO
The National Democratic Congress today joins Ghanaians in commemorating 58 years after the unfortunate overthrow of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
On 24th February 1966, President Nkrumah was ousted from office through Ghana’s first-ever coup d’etat. That day will be remembered as Ghana’s day of shame, as the coup truncated Nkrumah’s transformational vision which he had set in motion for the accelerated development and industrialisation of our country.
Instructively, the coup was executed by security personnel with the active orchestration of the forbears of those at the helm of affairs of our country today, in close collaboration with their foreign pay masters.
This nation-wrecking act was followed by a deliberate agenda by the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition to obliterate the memory of Nkrumah by attacking his works and legacy. Despite their determined efforts to rewrite history, the memory of Kwame Nkrumah lives on, and his legacy remains unparalleled.
We must say never again to such acts of treachery that have set our nation back and rolled back the clock of progress by several years. Ghanaians must reject those whose mission is not to pursue the path of democracy for the upliftment of our citizens, but their selfish quest for historical revisionism and the recognition of their ancestors.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah truly never dies.
Story by: Emmanuel Romeo Tetteh(#RomeoWrites) / Ahotoronline.com
