Minister Coercing GFA Capo To Resign

...Minister Denies Interfering
The chairman of the Ghana Football Association, Dr Nyaho Tamakloe, has accused the Education and Sports Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo of coercing him to resign his post.

Dr. Tamakloe has been engaged in some legal tussle with members of the Fotball Association, for about six month now over calls for his impeachment.

Education and Sports Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo says Ghana?s football interest will be better served by the departure of the current FA boss.

The minister held a meeting with Nyaho on Friday at which he urged Nyaho to resign in the face of mounting pressure from the Ghana league clubs association.

But Osafo Marfo says the overwhelming vote of no confidence passed by the clubs in Nyaho is indicative of the fact he must go.

But Nyaho is unlikely to budge as he told JoySports on Sunday. He says he suspects the new Deputy Minister of Sports, O.B Amoah is the brain behind the minister?s demands.

?Certainly I?m not going to heed to his demands because he didn?t put me there.? Said Nyaho in defiant mood.

?I have a case in court which I must finish with, set my principles straight and if I have anything to do, then I?ll do it.?

?I?ll be surprised if he thinks he?s dealing with someone who?ll easily give in like that.?

Ghana could probably be hit with sanctions from football?s world governing body, FIFA who frown on any form of governmental interference in football administration.

Minister Denies Interfering In GAF Administration

Deputy Minister for Sport O.B Amoah has denied assertions by the Chairman of the Ghana Foot Ball Association that he was being coerced to resign his post.

Dr Nyaho Tamakloe told Joy News on Sunday that the Minister for Education and Sports, Yaw Osafo Marfo had at a meeting on Friday impressed upon him to quit based on a vote of no confidence passed in him by the GFA Congress last month.

The FA Chiarman also accused the Deputy Minister of masterminding the minister?s demands.

But in an interview on Monday, Mr. Amoah explained that the minister merely sought to draw the FA Chairman?s Attention to the protracted legal tussles between Dr Tamakloe and its implications for football administration.

He denied that the ministry was interfering in the contravention of the rule of FIFA