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Nkrumah's Overthrow!

Major (now Lieutenant) General J. A. Ankrah, who was selected to be head of the new government installed on February 24, justified the Army's seizure of power as a corrective to the faults of Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, which he described as
Major (now Lieutenant) General J. A. Ankrah, who was selected to be head of the new government installed on February 24, justified the Army's seizure of power as a corrective to the faults of Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, which he described as "maladministration, mismanagement, the loss of individual freedom, and economic chaos."