{"id":415976,"date":"2011-05-03T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/fifa-will-not-rule-on-ghana-fa-presidential-election-saga\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:50:18","slug":"fifa-will-not-rule-on-ghana-fa-presidential-election-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/fifa-will-not-rule-on-ghana-fa-presidential-election-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa Will Not Rule On Ghana Fa Presidential Election Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"76\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28344\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/fifa-will-not-rule-on-ghana-fa-presidential-election-saga\/fifa_logo11-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28344\" title=\"Fifa will not rule on Ghana FA election saga\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fifa_logo111-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"Fifa says it does not have the authority to intervene in the Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidential election saga.\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifa says it does not have the authority to intervene in Ghana FA elections<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Fifa says it does not have the authority to intervene in the Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidential election saga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two GFA presidential aspirants petitioned the world governing body over the decision to disqualify them from the race.<\/p>\n<p>The GFA\u2019s elections committee disqualified Neil Armstrong Mortagbe and Vincent Sowah Odotei last month citing irregularities in their nomination papers.<\/p>\n<p>The two men wanted Fifa to intervene to rule over the decision to exclude them from the election.<\/p>\n<p>But Fifa says the two aggrieved parties must resolve the matter within the local federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a purely internal matter of the GFA and it is up to the GFA to answer the petitioners,\u201d Fifa deputy general secretary Markus Kattner said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its decision not to intervene in the matter, the world governing demanded a report on the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to kindly ask you to provide us with a report on these issues,\u201d Kattner added in a letter to the GFA.<\/p>\n<p>The two aspirants must now resort to the GFA\u2019s dispute resolution chamber to address their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to ban the two candidates left the incumbent Kwesi Nyantakyi as the only candidate to stand last month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>But the election was postponed to allow the GFA\u2019s dispute resolution chamber to resolve the stand-off before a new date is set for election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nyantakyi, who is credited for the country\u2019s first two World Cup appearances, is seeking a second term in office.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the member of the Caf Executive Committee and the interim president of the West Africa Football Union (Wafu).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/fifa-will-not-rule-on-ghana-fa-presidential-election-saga\/\" title=\"Fifa Will Not Rule On Ghana Fa Presidential Election Saga\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fifa Will Not Rule On Ghana Fa Presidential Election Saga<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Fifa says it does not have the authority to intervene in Ghana FA elections Fifa says it does not have the authority to intervene in the Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidential election saga. Two GFA presidential aspirants petitioned the world governing body over the decision to disqualify them from the race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":415977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fifa Will Not Rule On Ghana Fa Presidential Election Saga - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/fifa-will-not-rule-on-ghana-fa-presidential-election-saga\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fifa Will Not Rule On Ghana Fa Presidential Election Saga - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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