Founder and President of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation, Mr Charles Osei Asibey has artfully underscored the need for change to hit the presidency of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), saying, sports in Ghana is “fed up of a scheming landguard”.
His seeming political jab comes following his official announcement of his intentions to contest for the Presidential elections of the GOC. The GOC on Thursday, February 4, 2021, confirmed Monday, March 15, 2021 as the date for its Elective Congress during which Executives of the Committee for the next four years would be elected.
Charles Osei Asibey, a seasoned sports journalist who doubles as the General Secretary of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) is currently seeking to unseat the incumbent, Ben Nunoo Mensah as the president of the GOC when the body goes to the polls in March. Mr Asibey, a tried and tested sportsman and a revered senior journalist in the country, has questioned the effectiveness and transparency in the Ben Nunoo Mensah led administration of the GOC, and believes it is time for power to change hands for him “to serve” the nation in an absolute interest of Ghana sports.
The astute and influential sportsman wrote on twitter, “Time to serve cos sports is fed up of a scheming languard”.
The GOC will, on Friday, February 19, 2021, hold an Emergency Congress to discuss the roadmap for the March 15 elections, and Charles Asibey is expected to officially pick his nomination form to contest for the elections with the sole aim of ousting the incumbent, Ben Nunoo Mensah.
“Once the roadmap is approved by Congress, you cannot rule me out”, he told ghanasportspage.com.
For the records, the current president of the GOC, Ben Nunoo Mensah, then as the President of the Ghana Weightlifting Association, defeated the then incumbent Professor Francis Dodoo in the March 2017 elections held at the Alisa Hotel in Accra to climb to the throne. Nunoo Mensah polled 33 votes of the total valid votes cast to unseat Dodoo who polled 28 votes.
Professor Dodoo had then served in office for five years, and was seeking reelection.
The GOC elections is usually decided by delegates comprising two delegations each from the 23 Olympic sports federations, 15 from the non-Olympic sports and federations affiliated to the GOC, with two representatives of the Athletes Commission. The race has just begun, will the unnamed “scheming land guard” be voted out? How ready are delegates for the blowing wind for change? Well, your guess is as good as ours. The heat is on and ghanasportspage.com have our fingers crossed as we bring to our cherished readers every bit of developments from stem to stern.
