{"id":143350,"date":"2015-08-14T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=143350"},"modified":"2015-08-14T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:44:12","slug":"suit-against-gfa-election-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=143350","title":{"rendered":"Suit against GFA election dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Accra High court has dismissed an injunction application brought before it against the Ghana Football Association (GFA), seeking to prevent it from organising it&#8217;s congress to elect new executives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;I2bA5oGHiXuADHHmi10lhbTPm6eFZIsY&#8221;]The suit was brought to court by a private legal practitioner John Quayson together with the football club, Dynamic Heroes of Winneba to stop the GFA from going ahead with congress to elect a new president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delivering his ruling on the matter presiding judge, RB Batu said the plaintiff did not have the locus to sue the GFA, considering the fact that he is not a member of association, hence his decision to dismiss the suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling therefore gives the GFA the all clear to organise the elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Current GFA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi is standing opposed in this contest is likely receive an overwhelming endorsement from congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He would the running the affairs of the GFA for the third consecutive time since becoming the president in 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra High court has dismissed an injunction application brought before it against the Ghana Football Association (GFA), seeking to prevent it from organising it&#8217;s congress to elect new executives. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;I2bA5oGHiXuADHHmi10lhbTPm6eFZIsY&#8221;]The suit was brought to court by a private legal practitioner John Quayson together with the football club, Dynamic Heroes of Winneba to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-143350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}