President Nana Akufo-Addo has stated that his uncle, Joseph Boakye Danquah, who was a member of the Big Six, was the brain behind the existence of Ghana's premiere tertiary institution, The University of Ghana, Legon.

According to President Akufo-Addo, the vision of the late J.B Danquah inspired the British colonialists to build the University hence can be credited as the founder of the University.

The president told an audience at the launch of an Endowment Fund to commemorate the school’s 70th anniversary that: “It will be wholly appropriate and not at all far-fetched to describe Joseph Boakye Danquah as the founder of this University.”

In the president’s view, the British colonialists who built the university, were inspired by J.B Danquah when they initially intended to build for British West Africa, a single university in Nigeria.

“How felicitous was that decision and how greatly it has contributed to the growth of modern Ghana, it will be wholly appropriate and not at all far-fetched to describe Joseph Boakye Danquah as the founder of this University…. The fact which on the 70th anniversary of the university’s existence should be vividly recalled that all of us are the beneficiaries of his work,” Akufo-Addo said.