Sekou Nkrumah, the last child of Ghana's first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has launched a brutal attack on Mike Ocquaye, the speaker of parliament, describing him as a big fool.
Ocquaye has been widely quoted in the Ghanaian media as saying that Nkrumah was not the founder of Ghana.
“…today we celebrate one founding father which is palpable false, we have founding fathers," he was quoted as saying.
The speaker's remark did not sit well with Sekou who took to Facebook to viciously fire back.
Sekou took the comment section of a Facebook post by Francis Ontonyin, a lawyer, to vent his anger at the comments made by the speaker, saying: “He’s a big fool.â€
He then posted on his own Facebook wall that it was Nkrumah who indeed led Ghana to independence and consequently founded Ghana.
“Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence and therefore he is the founder of modern Ghana! That is a fact. If some people want to shove†alternative facts†down the throats of Ghanaians they must be prepared for a serious political confrontation, and I can assure them a humiliating defeat in the court of public opinion,†he said.
There have been heated debates regarding who founded Ghana since the September 21 Founder's Day holiday was instituted by the John Evans Atta Mills government in Nkrumah's honour.
Some Ghanaians, especially those who subscribe to the Danquah-Busia political tradition, have called for the day to renamed "Founders' Day" to accommodate other Ghanaian heros like JB Danquah who also contributed to the independence struggles.
According to them, JB Danquah and others members of the Big Six are all founders of Ghana due to their role in the independence struggle.
But others, especially Nkrumaists, have rejected the idea, saying that although other people deserve to be called founders of Ghana, those people are not JB Danquah and his Big Six colleagues.
In their view, those people rather tried to derail Ghana's fight for independence, unlike Nkrumah who they said called for immediate independence.