Former Ghana Athletics Association President, George Lutterodt has said elections organized by the Association over the weekend will go down as the worse in the history of country's sports elections.
Speaking in an interview on Asempa FM, Mr Lutterodt said "It was the most dirtiest election in Ghana's Sporting history".
He questioned why the sitting president was given an hour and 30 minutes too make a presentation while the other candidates were given only five minutes.
George Lutterodt lost narrowly to Incumbent Professor Francis Doddo after he pooled 8 to Francis Dodoo's 11 votes from a total of 19 delegates who cast their votes. George Lutterodt who sued Andrew Owusu for defamatory comment on an Accra Radio Station some weeks back insisted Prof Francis Doddo had to dissociate himself publicly from the statement since Dr Owusu was a member of his executive team.
Lutterodt also hinted that he will be taking a break from Ghana Athletics following his failure to reclaim the Presidency after his reign between 2001 and 2005.
"I think I can take a break from Athletics after all I have been chairman before and also I think we have lost a lot of publicity ,coupled with the poorly advertised elections, am stepping aside for now "he intimated
Meanwhile, Prof. Francis Dodoo who will serve another 4-year term in office as President of the Ghana Athletics Association, committed to improving quality of leadership in his final lap as president
"Thank you all and for those who lost today, please come on board and with the right attitude we'll all work for the good of Ghana athletics. The work is a lot and the more people who are on board, the easier it will be for us all. first of all we need to fix this constitution, I feel comfortable doing it now because I cannot be elected for a third term ,once that is done I think it will be imperative that all regional association have their elections "the GAA President said.
Dr. Silvanus L. Lamptey was elected Vice President Marc Dzradosi is the new Treasurer whilst Samuel Ayer was elected unopposed as Organizing Secretary. All will serve a new four-year mandate that will see them supervise the country's participation in the next Olympic Games scheduled for Rio in 2016.
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