Ghana FA chief throws light on AFCON bid

Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi has revealed that Caf Executive Committee purposely decided not to disclose the outcome of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations bid after the vote in Cairo, Egypt last week.

Caf has come under fire for lack of transparency in the voting process that saw Gabon winning the rights to stage the tournament at the expense of Ghana and Algeria.

Nyantakyi, who also serves on the Executive Committee, says the decision not to declare the result of the vote cannot be an index in classifying the process as radically flawed or unfair.

“It was agreed at a Caf Executive Committee meeting that the result of the vote for the 2017 Afcon hosting rights should not be published,” he told Joy FM.

“There was a feeling that revealing the results would arouse some acrimony and so after a brief debate at the meeting majority of the membership agreed that the result should not be revealed,” he said.

Nyantakyi has been appointed by Caf president Issa Hayatou to lead the body’s delegation to the Concacaf congress in Bahamas on Thursday.