I will not say Nkrumah founded Ghana — Gabby Otchere-Darko

Gabby Otchere-Darko has discredited the notion regarding Dr. Kwame Nkrumah being the founder father of the Republic of Ghana.

According to a staunch member of the New Patriotic Party, Mr Gabby Otchere-Darko in his recent interview with Channel One TV, a local media station in Ghana recounted the efforts made by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in the country’s quest to secure independence.

However, Mr Gabby Otchere-Darko claimed that the country did not achieve independence single-handedly by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah but he believes that it was a collective efforts by the leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention and other protest movements who began the fight for independence before Dr. Kwame Nkrumah joined the fight for independence.

“You can’t take it from Nkrumah, he knew how to charge, organise and mobilise people. But it does not make him the Founder. He was one of many. The struggle started even before the J.B Danquahs, and Paa Grants, so i don’t know why he want to give him the credit as the founder.

“Even Nkrumah after all the work he did, what name did he settle on? Ghana, who proposed the name? It wasn’t him. It’s tiring argument, I’m not interested in it,” Esq Gabby Otchere-Darko iterated.

Mr Gabby further asserted that, the name “Ghana” was not proposed by Dr Kwame Nkrumah and therefore, the country could not have been founded by one person.

“If people want to believe that Nkrumah was the only person who founded Ghana, please let them believe it. And those of us who don’t believe so, and still will give Nkrumah his credit, his due, for being a mobiliser and a driver who agitated the minds, perhaps more than the others because of his populist stance.

“Because of his connectivity with the people, we give him that credit, but i will not say that Nkrumah founded Ghana,” Mr Gabby Otchere-Darko said.