Thursday 24th October, 2019
By
Edna A. Quansah, GNA
Accra, Oct. 24, GNA –
Eastern Regional Football Association (RFA) Chairman, Linford Asamoah, secured
four votes to earn a place on the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Executive
Council seat in an election held on Thursday at the GFA Secretariat in Accra.
He would serve as
one of the two representatives of the RFA on the governing council of the GFA.
In the first round,
the Eastern RFA Chairman amassed four votes ahead of 10 RFA chairmen who
contested for a seat on the Executive Council.
The election of the
second candidate to join Asamoah on the Council was postponed after Upper
East’s Salifu Zida and Central Region’s Robert Duncan polled same number of
votes after three rounds.
In the first round,
Asamoah secured four votes to fortify his position while Zida and Duncan got
three votes each to go into a re-run between the two.
After the re-run,
both candidates again secured four votes, with two rejected ballots which
called for a third round to be held. In the third, both candidates secured 4
votes each again with two rejected ballots.
Per the GFA
statutes, the election of the second representative of the RFA’s was postponed
to Friday, October 25 where the GFA Presidential election will be held.
GNA
