Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah identified Oxford-trained Dr Alex Quayson Sackey — an exceptionally brilliant person who was made a diplomat and projected to the extent that he was accepted by the United Nations.
He became the first Black man to become the president of the United Nations General Assembly. Many had thought he would be the successor of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
The United States of America’s Central Intelligence Agency, after realising how close Dr Sackey was to Dr Nkrumah, decided to influence him to help their sinister plot to overthrow Ghana’s first president.
According to historian and lawyer Anokye Frimpong, Dr Nkrumah was cautioned by Egypt and then-Soviet Union to not travel out of the country, as the plans had been harboured to facilitate his overthrow.
However, Dr Nkrumah was convinced by his trusted diplomat, Dr Sackey, who had been recruited by the CIA to help ensure the overthrow, to travel on an assignment in Vietnam with an alluring hope of winning a Nobel Peace Prize Award.
Dr Sackey returned to Ghana to pledge allegiance to the members of the National Liberation Council led by Col. E.K. Kotoko, Major A.A. Afrifa, and IGP J.W.K. Harley, who staged the revolution despite being asked by Dr Nkrumah to protest his removal at the Organisation of African Unity in Addis Ababa.
