The Convention’s People’s Party (CPP) has called for an immediate apology and resignation of Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh. This follows the statement he made during his unveiling in Kumasi on Tuesday where he said, “Since independence from 1957 till today, we have not had any president that has helped Ghana like Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. I say from 1957 till today, not your Kwame Nkrumah… no president has protected Ghana and moved the country forward like Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo”.
According to the party, the statement is reprehensible and unbecoming of his stature. They added that it is abhorrent to refer to it, or even publish it anywhere, whether print or electronic media, and deserves to be immediately deleted from all forums.
“A questioning or comparison of the contribution of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to Ghana, Africa, and Humanity as a whole, is a moot question, dead on arrival, outmoded at birth. A man who, almost thirty years after his death in the year 2000, still won African of the Millennium, has a monument named after him in almost every country, and is a respected and recognisable name in every country and in every history book on modern Ghanaian, African and liberation politics on the planet”.
In a statement issued on Wednesday 10th July, the party emphasized that, “A mention of Osagyefo’s achievements, which includes the same Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh studied medicine, is a non-starter”.
“The CPP has also taken judicial notice of the wise admonition by His Royal Highness Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II to the Hon. Minister asking him to be wary of the perception of arrogance, and furthermore, not to make His Excellency Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia regret choosing him. “Unfortunately, the Hon. Minister did not heed this wise admonition, but lived up to the popular adage “my little finger is thicker than my Father’s waist”, and rather proceeded to use unprintable invectives to denigrate the very same Osagyefo under whose Government, the Father of his
Presidential Candidate, His Excellency Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, served”. They noted that this is a matter which, should not be flogged like a dead horse, but rather immediate, swift and effective action be taken, to remedy an almost irremediable blunder, and attempt to restore what is left of an already terribly sullied national image. “The action of the Hon. Minister does not do justice to an already pre-existing national perception that the New Patriotic Party wants to rewrite the history of our dear Country, Africa, and CPP, through the abolition of the Republic day holiday, AU day, the renaming of Founder’s Day, and its replacement with a self serving NPP holiday on 5th August, as well as the watering down of Osagyefo’s relevance in the Country’s educational curriculum, during the tenure of the Hon. Minister as Education Minister”.