NC members and FIFA’s representative on high table. INSET: A cross-section of delegates
Normalisation Committee (NC) Chairman Dr. Kofi Amoah has appealed to delegates at the GFA’s Extraordinary Congress to approve the new statutes proposed for the association.
At the GFA’s Extraordinary Congress in Accra yesterday, some delegates, including officials representing their various clubs, expressed gross reservations with some of the proposals.
The already approved FIFA status needed the buy-in of the delegates for it to be adopted.
Already, FIFA has cautioned clubs to accept the statutes or forget about their plans for an election and the creation of a new management to run Ghana football.
FIFA’s representative at the congress, Luca Nicola, stated that “These draft statutes are the result of a long consultative process between the NC and FIFA and if members fail to come to an agreement on the approval, there will be no elective congress.”
Publishing the audited accounts of the GFA in the dailies, limiting the tenure of the GFA president to two terms of four years each and increasing the size of congress to 120 delegates were proposals made at the congress.
Should congress approve the statues, elections at the district, regional and national levels would be held.
Thereafter, a board to replace the executive committee and a chairman to replace the president of the association would be elected.
By Kofi Owusu Aduonum