Yaw Anokye Frimpong, a Renowned legal practitioner and historian has boldly declared the claimed New Patriotic Party (NPP) Danquah-Busia Tradition as a lie.
According to the Historian, there is no such thing as the Danquah-Busia Tradition in Ghana’s political history.
Yaw Anokye Frimpong revealed that the tradition is a fiction created by a group within the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) to counter Ashanti’s dominance in Ghanaian politics.
Speaking in an interview on Onua TV, Yaw Anokye Frimpong narrated, “When secession agitations started immediately after the 1951 election, around 1952, J.B. Danquah was still alive; he died in 1965. Why did the Ashantis not take him (J.B. Danquah) as the leader of the secessionist NLM (National Liberation Movement) but instead chose Baffour Akoto as the leader?”
“There is nothing in Ghana called the Danquah-Busia Tradition; it is a lie. It was the supporters of J.B. Danquah, led by Adu-Boahen, who tricked the Ashantis,” he said
Yaw Anokye Frimpong further made the argument that the Danquah-Busia Tradition never existed because J.B. Danquah was not a member of either the NLM or UP.
He added, “If the Ashantis are able to organize themselves properly, they will be the ones determining who becomes the president of the country all the time. The Akyem Abuakwa royal house introduced this idea and cleverly created the imaginary Danquah-Busia Tradition, which is a complete fabrication.
“J.B. Danquah died in 1965. Why was it that when the Ashantis formed their first party, the NLM, and later the United Party (UP), they made Busia the leader? At that time, Danquah was alive, well-educated, and even had a PhD”, he said.
According to the historian, the Ashantis never recognised J.B. Danquah as one of them because the UGCC, of which he was a part, was only fighting for the independence of the Eastern Province, the Western Province and the Central Province.
“They wanted someone who could challenge Nkrumah; that was why they sidelined Dombo and Baffour Akoto and chose Busia instead. If Danquah was such a significant figure, why was he not made the leader? He was not part of the UP or NLM.
The Ashantis did not consider him one of them. The reason was very simple: the constitution of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) stated that they sought independence for the Eastern Province (comprising today’s Greater Accra and Eastern regions), the Western Province (today’s Western and Western North regions), and the Central Province. The other regions were not included.”
Meanwhile, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, the Minister for Environment, Science, and Technology has fired shots at the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
According to Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, the NPP want Ghanaians to eulogise traitors who betrayed the country.
He asserted that there is nothing like the Big Six as a lot of the Big Six were traitors.
The Minister for Environment detailed that some members of the Big Six were traitors who claimed Kwame Nkrumah was the instigator of the 1948 riots.
Murtala Muhammed noted that in one of Kwame Nkrumah’s books, he revealed he had nothing to do with the 1948 riots.
He revealed that Nkrumah was not even in Accra when they rounded the so-called political figures with some UGCC members involved who later said they had no hand in it but it was Nkrumah who masterminded the riot.
Murtala Muhammed stated, “The other five all said, including JB Danquah that it was Nkrumah who mastermind the 1948 riots. They arrested Nkrumah and freed them. Today because some people have attempted to rewrite our history, they claim this is the Big Six, there was nothing like the Big Six, a lot of them were traitors”.
“If you read Nkrumah’s books, he indicated clearly, that he had nothing to do with the 1948 riots it was an upheaval of the Ghanaian people because of what happened at the castle. Today they want us to eulogise those people who betrayed this country”, he emphasised.
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— Che🇬🇭 (@CheEsquire) March 14, 2025
