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ACCRA, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued a ruling in favor of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Tuesday night involving a landmark case brought against it by a senior administrator of the country football.
The Swiss-based CAS, in its ruling, said that the Ghana Football Association followed due process to disqualify the plaintiff, Wilfred Osei Kwaku Palmer, owner of the Tema Youth Club.
“The appeal filed on October 14, 2019 by Wilfred Kwaku Osei against the GFA with respect to the decision issued on October 4, 2019, respectively on October 8, 2019 by the Respondent’s Elections Committee is dismissed,” it stated the CAS in its five-point ruling.
The dispute arose when the then GFA Committee for Normalization (NC) led by Kofi Amoah, prior to the association’s presidential elections in October 2019, disqualified Osei Palmer from the race.
The NC, which was formed by FIFA and the Ghanaian government, explained that Palmer was disqualified from the GFA presidential election for failing to pay a ten percent player fee to the association.
He later dragged the defunct Normalization Committee to the CAS for what he described as an “unfair and calculated disqualification” of his candidacy for the presidential race.
The CAS was originally scheduled to render its verdict on July 17, but postponed it to August 4 and subsequently to September 1.
