George Afriyie is no longer eligible to run for president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) after being disqualified by the GFA Elections Committee.
After losing out four years prior, George Afriyie, a former vice president of the Ghana FA, was hoping to unseat Kurt Okraku, the current president of the GFA.
The football administrator, according to a statement from the Elections Committee, did not submit the necessary number of GFA members to support his candidacy.
The Committee claimed that he used Jeffrey Asare, who was unqualified, to sign his nomination paperwork, and it was later discovered that Asare wasn’t a Director at Victory Club Warriors FC as he had claimed.
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“For the position of GFA President, you were required to state one GFA Member proposing your Candidature and five (5) GFA Members supporting it per the GFA Statutes 2019. We therefore conclude that your endorsement by Jeffrey Asare is invalid,” a section of the statement said.
“Due to the above invalidity, your nomination form currently has four (4) GFA Members supporting you. In light of this, you do not meet the requirements to contest the election for the position of President of the GFA.”
However, the Committee also stated that George Afriyie had three working days to appeal the decision to disqualify him.
Afriyie has contested every single GFA elections since 2005, but got disqualified.
If Afriyie’s appeal is rejected, Okraku, the current GFA president, will run unopposed for reelection.
Relatively, Kurt Okraku, the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), has declared his intention to run for re-election in the upcoming GFA elections, which are set for October.
In response to his declaration, Okraku received a standing ovation and chants of “Long Live Kurt” from the audience at the 29th GFA Ordinary Congress.
Okraku’s affirmation opens the door for a tight race because former vice presidents of the Ghana Football Association George Afriyie and Kojo Yankah have also declared their intention to run.
