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Let’s get Ghana football working again – Asamoah Gyan charges Kurt Okraku, ExCo members

Former Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has expressed his excitement at the election of Kurt Okraku as GFA President.

In a tweet, Gyan also congratulated the new members of the GFA’s Executive Council.

He urged the new officials to kick-start the revival of Ghana football which saw its image severely dented by damning revelations of corruption in 2018.

“Congratulations to GFA President Kurt Okraku and the newly constituted executive council…very solid and exciting names in there….Let’s get Ghana football working again,” Gyan tweeted.

Dreams FC Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kurt Okraku, was elected the new President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in Friday’s elections.

Mr Okraku fills the spot vacated by former GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi who resigned in 2018 following the exposé by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

Okraku led the way after the first round of voting and was a vote away from becoming the new President of the Association after the second round.

He polled 59 votes representing 50% of votes cast with candidates needing at least 60 votes to win.

George Afriyie, who polled 40 votes in the first round improved to 43 votes but was still well behind Kurt Okraku.

Nana Yaw Amponsah saw his tally slashed from 27 in the first round to 16 in the second.

However, as delegates were voting in the third round, George Afriyie conceded, saying he was “a unifier and a team player who works for football.”

In the third round, Okraku was endorsed by 93 delegates.

Kurt Okraku thus becomes the 7th GFA President since 1992 and the 24th in the Association’s history.

Amanda Clinton and George Ankomah both dropped out in the first round with 0 votes.

Fred Pappoe also opted to pull out after polling six votes.

The previous day, 10 of 11 Executive Council members were also elected, including Gyan’s own manager, Sammy Anim Addo.

Kurt Okraku has also received congratulatory messages from the president, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, Parliament’s Minority and football’s world governing body, FIFA.

He will now serve a maximum of two four-year terms in office following the adoption of the new statutes GFA at September’s Extraordinary Congress.

 


 

Source: citinewsroom.com

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