{"id":1223592,"date":"2022-10-13T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/wafu-zone-b-elective-congress-kurt-okraku-goes-unopposed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:43:42","slug":"wafu-zone-b-elective-congress-kurt-okraku-goes-unopposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/wafu-zone-b-elective-congress-kurt-okraku-goes-unopposed\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFU Zone B Elective Congress: Kurt Okraku goes unopposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-20-at-2.00.31-PM-1-1024x683-1-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"GFA boss, Kurt Okraku\" title=\"GFA boss, Kurt Okraku\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GFA boss, Kurt Okraku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President of the Ghana Football Association Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku will run unopposed in an elective congress of WAFU Zone B that would take place in Cote D\u2019Ivoire on Saturday, October 15, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after no other candidate filed nominations to contest President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku to lead the sub-regional body.<\/p>\n<p>The election will be held during the 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0General Assembly of WAFU Zone B this weekend \u2013 this means President Simeon-Okraku is set to extend his reign as WAFU Zone B President for a four-year term having replaced Djibrilla Hima Hamidou of Niger who stood down from the position in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Simeon-Okraku has worked tirelessly to revive competition and bring modernity to football administration in the Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly is the supreme legislative organ of the football block where key decisions are made for implementation by the WAFU Zone B Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Federation Presidents, CAF Executives, General Secretaries of the seven Associations within the sub-region, and some invited guests are expected to attend the General Assembly on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2vRVl02UF_k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Residents of Tantra Hills share thoughts on national issues - Badwam Mpensenpensemu (10-13-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vRVl02UF_k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GFA boss, Kurt Okraku President of the Ghana Football Association Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku will run unopposed in an elective congress of WAFU Zone B that would take place in Cote D\u2019Ivoire on Saturday, October 15, 2022. This comes after no other candidate filed nominations to contest President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku to lead the sub-regional body. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4186,27370,1603,2557,8992,7264,440],"class_list":["post-1223592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-congress","tag-elective","tag-kurt","tag-okraku","tag-unopposed","tag-wafu","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}