Alhaji Raji may call it a day, not entire GHALCA!
GHALCA’s six-club competition, appropriately christened G6 tournament and played over two days like a gala, ended at the Essipon Stadium in Sekondi last Sunday with a make-shift Asante Kotoko side tilting the scales to lift the trophy.
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It was the first time in the history of the Ghana League Clubs Association’s annual competition that such a format had been featured instead of the previously known Top 4 or Top 8 for reasons the organisers could best recount or explain.
But since the tournament, reviews have tended to duel on an ethnic comment the GHALCA chairman, Alhaji Raji, is alleged to have made against Kotoko’s opponents in the final, Aduana Stars.
There is no need repeating the alleged infamous comment here. But suffice us to express our regret at such a diatribe, so to speak, if it, indeed, came off the lips of the GHALCA capo.
However, Alhaji Raji, has so far not admitted uttering such comment and rather blaming his political opponents for trying to do him in because of the upcoming elections in which he would be seeking re-election (see back page).
But we can’t stop being amused by the GHALCA boss, who in another breath, has apologised for the alleged offensive comment. And you are wont to ask: apologising for what?
Such a disposition make us wonder whether Alhaji Raji is being candid with the truth. Otherwise, he must do the honourable thing.
But be that as it may, we are also uncomfortable with the decision by some members of the GHALCA calling on the clubs’ directors to quit the association.
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We think ideally, it should be the accused, that is, the GHALCA boss who the pressure should be mounted on to resign and not the other way round.
This is why we would disagree with the call by the clubs’ leaders and some opinion leaders in the GHALCA that they resign en bloc.
Indeed, it is on the same score that we would like to appeal to officials of Aduana Stars and Berekum Chelsea, who have threatened to quit from the GHALCA, as well as other clubs in the Brong Ahafo Region, not to bow out.
We think it is the unthinkable thing to do and rather they should partner with others in the remaining regions who feel strongly about the alleged offence by their boss to protest and force him to resign.
It is like asking all affiliated members of FIFA to resign for alleged Blatter iniquities, instead of the members holding their own against the FIFA boss, if indeed alleged offences committed by him are found to be true and hurting them.
For sure, it is the members who make the association and not the leader, whose tenure can be terminated at the next election.