Swearing-in of H.E John Mahama as President of Ghana, the Second Independence Day of Ghana!! Why? - Onsy Nkrumah

Allegedly, the NDC Communication team for some reason are purported or alleged to be behind branding the event of swearing-in of H.E John Dramani Mahama as elected President of Ghana, the second independence day of Ghana. Why?

I don’t know why or even if it is correctly or incorrectly attributed to NDC? Does anyone know if NDC Communicators are indeed behind this particular confused branding as alleged?

Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s State Visit to Yugoslavia in 1961

If anybody knows more about it please kindly speak up to inform the author of this article.

I do know it is JDM’s second term or second presidency. So, does that imply that his first term or first presidency was Ghana’s first independence and his second term is going to be the second independence of Ghana?

No, of course not!! That surely can not be true because the independence of Ghana happened on 6th March 1957 before my brother JDM was even born and is historically attributed without any dispute or any doubt to the Father and founder of Ghana HE Dr Kwame Nkrumah the first Prime Minister of Ghana who subsequently became the first president when Ghanaians voted to turn our then newly independent “Commonwealth of Ghana” to become the “Republic of Ghana” on 1st July 1960 against the vigorous relentless campaigning and opposition headed by Hon JB Danquah and his like minded political associates and friends.

The Real Hero of Ghana’s independence on his way for talks with British Minister

However, Ghanaians’ majority spoke peacefully and democratically at the ballot box to make Ghana a Constitutional Democratic Republic with an elected Ghanaian citizen as President and Head of State to Replace HM Queen Elizabeth the Royal Head of the British Empire and British Commonwealth ever since, up to date and by God’s grace till the end of time.

Ghanaians used to duly celebrate it, till NPP cancelled “Republic Day” public holiday on first day of July each year. Many Ghanaians understandably referred to 1st July 1960 as the Second Independence Day of Ghana because historically on that date Ghana finally cut herself completely free from Britain by cutting her own colonial-imperial umbilical chord once and for all from the British Empire by democratically decisively choosing to go totally independent from Britain and to have a democratically elected Ghanaian Citizen to become her President and Head of the Republic of Ghana and the Commander in Chief of her Armed Forces.

If my party; Nkrumah’s own party CPP won the recent 2024 elections and was duly returned to power I personally may have been excused if I referred to the handing over of power to a Nkrumah CPP government and to the swearing-in of a Nkrumaist CPP President as the second independence day of Ghana because both governments would have related to our founder and to his Nkrumah’s CPP of the first republic and of the latter day CPP government which is yet to manifest.

Meetings with HM Ministers and Servants of the Crown were of different astute business, style and nature than meetings with HM herself

Certainly not to a handing over to NDC President and NDC government that is closely associated with their own party founder JJ Rawlings rather than with Ghana’s founder and CPP’s founder Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah as the second independence day of Ghana! Unless my brother HE JM is about to declare and announce shifting ideologically to become a Nkrumaist himself or to become CPP member like his late Nkrumaist father Hon E Mahama was and he played a prominent constructive role in independent Ghana’s first CPP republic? I would be interested to know hopefully soon?

I’d like to also take this opportunity to publicly and sincerely congratulate my brother and President HE John Dramani Mahama with his impressive winning of the presidential race to become Ghana’s president once again and I wish him all the best to do very well and to succeed and to do better in his second term than he did first time around.