Former president, John Dramani Mahama, has blamed faithful for the Danquah-Busia tradition of the overthrow of Ghana's first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
As per him, the Danquah-Busia tradition, from which the New Patriotic Party was formed, schemed with specialists outside the country to expel Nkrumah in 1966.
Mr. Mahama said the uprising annihilated Nkrumah's vision for Ghana and the aggregate of the African mainland.
The former President offered these comments in a Facebook post while honoring the 57th commemoration of the 1966 overthrow on Friday.
"quite a while back today, 24th February 1966, the Danquah-Busia political custom schemed with outer knowledge organizations to start Ghana's most memorable overthrow, which brought down the public authority of our most memorable President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
"This overthrow was accomplished through a cognizant and consistent mission of misrepresentation and backbiting", bits of Mahama's post read.
Mahama proceeded to say that "In 1966, I was a young man still in grade school. In any case, I recall features of the dull days that followed the February 24, 1966 upset".
The previous President utilized the event to encourage Ghanaians to stay faithful to the country's vote based way.
He additionally jumping all over the chance to beseech African pioneers to stay consistent with the fundamentals of vote based administration.
"As today checks 57 years of that rebellion, I approach all individual Ghanaians and our devoted security organizations and military to stamp this day as one of reflection and to stay faithful to the 1992 Constitution as we start the undertaking of protecting our dear country from the dim pit the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dove us into.
I further urge all Africans to allow significant majority rules system an opportunity, the very justification for which I'm by and by here in Nigeria as Top of the West African Elderly folks Gathering on a political race intervention mission, as the nation votes on Saturday" the statement ended up.
Responses of Danquah-Busia activists
In the mean time, individuals from the Danquah-Busia custom have reliably disproved the cases that they assumed a focal part in Ghana's most memorable rebellion.
Over and over, they have focused on that such statements are misleading and ought not be related with the late Dr.J.B Danquah or the late Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia.
In a rare example of years prior, the then Overseer of the Danquah-Busia Foundation, Gabby Otchere-Darko complained when a previous Correspondence Pastor, Dr Omane Boamah made that claim on Newsfile.
Out of frustration, Mr Otchere-Darko strolled off the stage, portraying the remarks as 'idiotic'.