Okraku re-elected as Ghana FA president

Patrice Motsepe with Kurt Okraku

Friday Oct 06, 2023. 13:00

Former Ghanaian journalist Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku has been re-elected as President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

This happened during the Elective Congress in Tamale in the Northern region of Ghana where the former Dreams FC chairman was unopposed.

The GFA issued the following statement following the elections.

“Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku has been re-elected as President of the Ghana Football Association during the Elective Congress in Tamale in the Northern region Ghana,” a statement read.

“Simeon-Okraku stood unopposed, but the one hundred and twenty (120) delegates present voted to retain him as head of Ghana football’s governing body.

“He polled 117 votes (representing 97.5%) of the total votes cast with two delegates voting against his retention as one other delegate abstained.”

Okraku replaced Kwesi Nyantakyi as the GFA president in 2019 after he secured votes in the third round of the elections which was held at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra.