{"id":70181,"date":"2023-05-24T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/i-am-not-interested-in-gfa-presidency\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:42:22","slug":"i-am-not-interested-in-gfa-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/24\/i-am-not-interested-in-gfa-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not interested in GFA presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"512\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ABBEY-696x512.jpg\"   alt=\"Randy Abbey\" title=\"Randy Abbey\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Abbey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President of Kpando Heart of Lions, Randy Abbey, has ruled himself out of contesting for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The football ecosystem will elect a new leader in October later this year after the mandate of the current president, Kurt Okraku ends following his four-year stay in office.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Abbey, he has not taken any decision to contest for the seat and the plan is out of quotation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in contesting for the GFA presidential seat, it is out of the equation,\u201d Mr Abbey, who also serves as an Executive Council member of the GFA, disclosed on <strong>Asempa FM <\/strong>on the <strong>Sports Nite Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Heart of Lions will compete in the 2023\/24 Ghana Premier League after winning the Zone 3 Division One League.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abbey previously served as the spokesperson of the Ghana Football Association, serving in this position for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>He also serves as the Chairman of the Black Satellites management committee. 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According to Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I am not interested in GFA presidency - 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\/2023\/05\/24\/i-am-not-interested-in-gfa-presidency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I am not interested in GFA presidency - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Randy Abbey President of Kpando Heart of Lions, Randy Abbey, has ruled himself out of contesting for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidency. 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