{"id":464483,"date":"2011-07-20T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/20\/scandal-vote-buying-hits-ghana-fa-executive-committee-elections\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T07:41:40","slug":"scandal-vote-buying-hits-ghana-fa-executive-committee-elections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/scandal-vote-buying-hits-ghana-fa-executive-committee-elections-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SCANDAL: &#8216;Vote Buying&#8217; Hits Ghana FA Executive Committee Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Some candidates jostling for seats onto the Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association are said to be involved in buying votes, GHANAsoccernet.com understands.<\/p>\n<p>A Ghana FA official who spoke on anonymity told GHANAsoccernet.com on Tuesday: \u201cDelegates have spoken to me and confirmed that of the some candidates have paid them huge sums of monies to for their votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olloboi Commodore, a contestant on the ticket of Division One side Sporting Mirren, confirmed by saying: \u201cThe issue has come to my concern but I want to tell the delegates that they should collect the money and vote according to their conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleven aspirants have submitted their nominations to vie for six seats available to Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes new faces; Emmanuel Kyeremeh (Club president Berekum Chelsea), JF Mensah (Ebusua Dwarfs), Medeama SC president Moses Armah<\/p>\n<p>Others are Kofi Manu (Aduana Stars), Emmanuel Owusu Ansah (Kotoko), Desmond Frimpong Manso (Heart of Lions) and Felix Ansong (Liberty Professionals)<\/p>\n<p>Fred Crentsil, who was elected five years ago under the ticket of Sporting Mirren, will contest as Hearts of Oak Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p>Old members who have filed to contest include Kudjoe Fiano (AshGold), Jones Alhassan Abu (RTU) and Randy Abbey (Mighty Jets).<\/p>\n<p>The election is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 20 July at the Ghana FA secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve second-tier league contestants will battle for four seats with their election fixed for Thursday 21 July at the secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>They include old faces George Afriyie (Unity FC); Kingsley Osei Bonsu (Bechem United) and Ghana FA vice-president Fred Pappoe (Great Olympics).<\/p>\n<p>Others are Kwaku Eyiah (Tarkwa United) Wilfred Osei Parma (Tema Youth), Olloboi Commodore (Sporting Mirren), Joojo Duncan (Wise), Precious Cudjoe (Zaytuna)<\/p>\n<p>Delali Senaya (Inter Allies), Nana Adjei (Union Rovers), Peter Nimo (BA United) and Sports Journalist MacParadise Okocha (Tete Atenpong).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Some candidates jostling for seats onto the Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association are said to be involved in buying votes, GHANAsoccernet.com understands. A Ghana FA official who spoke on anonymity told GHANAsoccernet.com on Tuesday: \u201cDelegates have spoken to me and confirmed that of the some candidates have paid them huge sums of monies to for their votes.\u201d Olloboi Commodore, a contestant on the ticket of Division One side Sporting Mirren, confirmed by saying: \u201cThe issue has come to my concern but I want to tell the delegates that they should collect the money and vote according to their conscience.\u201d Eleven aspirants have submitted their nominations to vie for six seats available to Premier League clubs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SCANDAL: &#039;Vote Buying&#039; Hits Ghana FA Executive Committee Elections - 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\/07\/20\/scandal-vote-buying-hits-ghana-fa-executive-committee-elections-2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"SCANDAL: &#039;Vote Buying&#039; Hits Ghana FA Executive Committee Elections - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Some candidates jostling for seats onto the Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association are said to be involved in buying votes, GHANAsoccernet.com understands. 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