President and owner of Division One League side, Wilfred Osei Kwaku aka Palmer says that his disqualification from the 2019 GFA Presidential elections should not have happened and he will prove it at the right time.

In the run up to the GFA Presidential election, Wilfred Osei Kwaku Palmer was disqualified by the vetting committee of the then Normalization Committee for various infractions.

He was disqualified from contesting the October 2019 Ghana Football Association Presidential elections by the Normalization Committee for not paying some loyalty payment to the Ghana Football Association after the sale of his player Joseph Paintsil.

Speaking in an interview with Asempa FM, on Monday morning the aggrieved football administrator says that he will come out at the right time.

"My disqualification should never have happened and at the right time I will prove it.. So we decided to back one particular candidate.

Papsay is my friend, George Afriyie is also my friend but I had to back one particular candidate."

"I knew Nana Yaw Amponsah from Tema but had to back one particular candidate.

I remained neutral and now we are all paying for supporting a particular candidate." he lamented.

Current GFA President Kurt Okraku won the elections after two rounds.

Below is the reasons given at the time by the Normalization Committee for Palmer's disqualification:

1. Breach of Article 33(5)(c) of the GFA General Regulations

With the above reason, the rule states that “Ten (10) percent of all training and transfer fees in respect of
external transfers, shall be paid into a Football Development Fund”.  Where five percent will go the GFA and the other five will be paid to the Ghana League Club Association (GHALCA). If it’s of juvenile transfer then the five percent will be paid by GHALCA to the National Juvenile Committee.

2. The decision of the Ethics Committee dated 13th December 2017

Palmer in 2018 was told to retract a statement he made after the Black Stars failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

The former Vice Chairman of the Black Stars attributed Ghana’s inability to qualify to not paying unclassified indemnity to referees in an interview with Citi Fm .

“I was quite surprised that Ghanaians and the media sided with former Sports Minister Nii Lante Vanderpuye [about not budgeting for indemnities] when the government white paper on the Dzamefe Commission report clearly indicated that unclassified payments were legal in the concept of our budget.”

“If we had spent around $300,000 dollars [on referees] and stood to benefit about $8 million [by appearing at the World Cup], I see nothing wrong with it,” he added