{"id":104960,"date":"2023-09-30T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/30\/abandon-your-gfa-presidential-ambition-george-afriyie-told\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:15:48","slug":"abandon-your-gfa-presidential-ambition-george-afriyie-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/30\/abandon-your-gfa-presidential-ambition-george-afriyie-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandon your GFA presidential ambition – George Afriyie told"},"content":{"rendered":"

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George Afriyie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Former General Manager of Hearts of Oak, Neil Armstrong-Mortagbe has urged George Afriyie to drop his ambition to contest for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Mr Afriyie, who is a former GFA Vice President\u00a0has been disqualified from contesting for the seat.<\/p>\n

However, In reaction, the former Liberty Professionals General Manager\u00a0has petitioned the Court of Arbitration of Sports to contest his disqualification.<\/p>\n

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But Neil Armstrong, who is a former\u00a0GFA\u00a0presidential aspirant believes George Afriyie should abandon his ambitions\u00a0because all football administrators support incumbent, Kurt Okraku.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have told him [George Afriyie not to pursue this case further],\u201d he told JoyNews.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the number of endorsements we have seen. Are we to disbelieve the likes of Dr\u00a0Nyaho-Tamakloe, Amarkai Amarteifio, Moses Armah Parker, and some of these persons, in the last elections in 2019, everybody in our football knows where some of them stood in terms of who they were backing?<\/p>\n

\u201cYet these persons have come forward and said \u2018we are not saying our football is perfect; there is so much more work to do, but given the signals that we\u2019ve seen of these four years of Mr. Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku, we think he is laying a good foundation,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the GFA elections have been delayed following the FA\u2019s dispute with King Faisal who has summoned the body for wanting to hold presidential elections before electing new Executive Council members.<\/p>\n

The court has rescheduled the hearing to Thursday, October 12, 2023. The adjournment has caused the GFA to postpone their election from October 5, 2023, to October 15.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, George Afriyie on Friday, September 29 has also filed an appeal to place an injunction on the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n

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