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Dreams FC chief Okraku beats Afriyie to succeed Nyantakyi as Ghana FA president

Dreams FC executive chairman Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku has been elected as the new president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

The Still Believe chief beat off competition from five other contestants during a GFA Elective Congress conducted in Accra on Friday.

The election was ultimately decided after a third round of voting, with a total of 93 delegates endorsing the former GFA Executive Committee member who, by this time, ran unopposed following withdrawal of closest contender George Afriyie after the second round.

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Okraku takes over from Kwesi Nyantakyi, whose 13-year reign as GFA boss was brought crashing down by a bribery and match-fixing scandal in June 2018.