Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi has alleged that the TigerEye Investigation team was paid to bring him down because people said he was “too powerful”.
The former GFA boss who has declared his ambition to become the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejisu in the Ashanti region says he knows the people in Ghana who are behind that investigation that stripped him off his position as President of the GFA and other higher portfolios he occupied at CAF and FIFA.
During an interview with Captain Smart on Onua TV’s morning show, Maakye, Tuesday, April 02, 2024, Mr. Nyantakyi said they had to tarnish his reputation to take him out of his position because of the power they assumed he weirded at the time.
“Oh of course. People were saying Kwesi Nyantakyi was too powerful,” he said in response to the question, “do you think the team that made that investigation were paid to bring you down?”
“You have to give a dog a bad name before you can kill it because amongst the white people, they love dogs to the extent that they eat, swim and sleep with them. So before you can kill a dog, you have to give it a bad name so how would they have killed me without giving me a bad name?” he explained further.
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Meanwhile, the former football titan has confirmed reports that he is interested in replacing deceased lawmaker John Kumah, whose untimely death occurred on Thursday, March 07, giving room for a by-election to replace his role.
Mr. Nyantakyi said he will ensure that football is revived if he becomes a Member of Parliament.
“I will ensure that the GFA takes back its past glory. I am a former President [of the GFA], so I see myself as an insider,” he said.
“Wherever I find myself I have to use my wisdom to help improve not only football but sports as a whole. I am also a lawyer, so I will use all that to help develop football,” he added.
The former Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) says he is in constant touch with many officials of the continent’s sport-governing body and even FIFA.
He said recently when CAF officials were in Ghana for the 13th African Games, he was apprised of all the activities regarding football ahead of the competition.
He says he continues to watch football and he is in an appeals process to overturn the 15-year ban imposed on him by football’s world-governing body.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is expected to open nominations for the Ejisu primary later today, Tuesday, April 02.
Mr. Nyantakyi says delegates have resolved to pick the forms on his behalf.
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