Amanda Clinton expresses gratitude to Ghanaians

The only female in the 2019 presidential race Lawyer Amanda Akoukor Clinton has expressed gratitude to the Ghanaian football fraternity, promising to play a role to "bring the game back the glorious days".

The crisis management expert was among the six-member contest that saw Kurt Okraku winning the presidential seat after 3rd round of voting.

"Thanks to all who played various roles to help me achieve the historic, ground-breaking & bravely in seeking the leadership role of the country's soccer governing body," she told ghanaguardian.com

"Though, I did not get the mandate to help bring the needed reforms and transformations in Ghana football,I will still play a part to get the game back the glorious days."

Amanda made history last Friday after becoming the first Ghanaian female to ever contest the GFA presidential position held in the capital Accra.

She obtained her nomination from the camp of premier league giant Accra Hearts of Oak.

Miss Clinton is a practicing lawyer after she was called to the English and Welsh Bar in 2006 and the Ghanaian Bar in 2009 and she specialises in Crisis Management.

She believes her legal background would have added a lot in her move to carry Ghana football to a higher heights.

"Whilst my legal background and integrity would have ensured transparent and integrity as the public and international stakeholders would have believed in the Gfa brand once more," she said.

"I wasn't riding on the female ticket but the excellence ticket."

Clinton worked in the Office of Ghana’s Attorney-General for 42 months and one of the cases she worked on was a case involving Kosmos Oil Company and oil spill that occurred in 2010.

Miss Clinton bagged a Masters in Politics from the University of London between 2002 and 2003. She would have become the third woman to grab the top football job if she had won the election which was voted by 118 delegates out of 120.