{"id":71025,"date":"2023-05-26T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/26\/kurt-okraku-will-have-oppositions-to-contest-him\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:29:40","slug":"kurt-okraku-will-have-oppositions-to-contest-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/26\/kurt-okraku-will-have-oppositions-to-contest-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Okraku will have oppositions to contest him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"368\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Abdul-Salam-Yakubu-696x368.png\"   alt=\"Abdul Salam\" title=\"Abdul Salam\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Salam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Owner and bankroller of New Edubiase United FC,\u00a0Abdul Salam Yakubu, has insisted that current Ghana Football Association (GFA) president, Kurt Okraku, will not go unopposed in the upcoming FA elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okraku, who assumed office in October\u00a02019, will see his first term end in October later this year\u00a0and is poised to seek re-election with Congress yet to determine the date.<\/p>\n<p>During the previous election cycle, the race for the presidency was fiercely contested and characterized by intense competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, Berekum Chelsea\u2019s bankroller, Bernard Amofa Jantuah is the only one to openly declare his intention to contest for the GFA presidential seat.<\/p>\n<p>But Abdul Salam Yakubu believes there are more candidates who are waiting to pick nomination forms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people ready to contest Kurt Okraku. Should the GFA open nomination today, many people will send in their nomination forms to contest the GFA President and Executive Council,\u201d he told Accra-based Onua FM.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned football administrator\u00a0further reiterated that the current GFA administration has created a lot of enemies for the Association, sideling all those that opposed Kurt Okraku in the previous elections in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr Okraku, speaking to SuperSport, insisted that he is convinced of retaining his seat ahead of the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball will speak just like it did in 2019,\u201d Okraku said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I know for a fact is that we have served football to the best of our ability. We were told in the classroom that there\u2019s 24 hours in a day, but football has taught has that there\u2019s more than 24 hours in a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we have worked more than 24 hours in a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/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=\"dKM0H6WSS2s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sharp Herbs - Badwam Afisem on Adom TV (26-05-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dKM0H6WSS2s?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Salam Owner and bankroller of New Edubiase United FC,\u00a0Abdul Salam Yakubu, has insisted that current Ghana Football Association (GFA) president, Kurt Okraku, will not go unopposed in the upcoming FA elections. Mr Okraku, who assumed office in October\u00a02019, will see his first term end in October later this year\u00a0and is poised to seek re-election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71025","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>Kurt Okraku will have oppositions to contest him - 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\/26\/kurt-okraku-will-have-oppositions-to-contest-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kurt Okraku will have oppositions to contest him - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abdul Salam Owner and bankroller of New Edubiase United FC,\u00a0Abdul Salam Yakubu, has insisted that current Ghana Football Association (GFA) president, Kurt Okraku, will not go unopposed in the upcoming FA elections. 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