The Former Vice Chairman of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Joseph Ade-Coker, has urged Sports Minister-Designate Kofi Adams to suspend the Ghana Premier League (GPL) for six (6) months to help its revival.
Mr. Ade-Coker, proffering solutions for hooliganism that has become a canker in the country’s football, said it calls for the immediate dissolution of the league.
“We have to suspend the league for six months so that we can fix the mess because these hooliganism issues have been in existence long time at various levels in our game,” he told Saddick Adams on the Angel Morning Show, Wednesday, February 5, 2024.
Chairman Ade-Coker as he is popularly called, remarked is in connection with the death of a supporter of Kumasi Asante Kotoko at a league match in Nsoatre with Nsoatreman FC during the week 19 of fixtures.
He suggested also that leadership of the Ghana Football Association headed by Kurt Okraku is restructured to help do things in the right directions.
In the interim, the Former Greater Accra Regional Chairman for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), said a new normalization committee should be constituted to takeover.
Asked if his suggestions could not merit punishment from the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) as interference, he stated no, indicating that football in Ghana is nothing to write home about due to its bad state.
In supportive of Ade-Coker’s suggestions is Ellen Ama Daaku, a Communications Team Member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who believed the six month is not enough to do things properly and thus calls for two years period.
