Izetta
Wins LFA Presidency
Monday, 20th March 2006
Sherrif (Blue)
Izata Wesley (red,white Blue)
…Becomes The FA First Female Elected president
The long anticipated LFA congress and general elections came to a climax
last weekend when the incumbent S.Izetta Wesley defeated her Vice
president for administration, Mr. Siaka A. Sheriff in a tough clash to
become the association’s first female elected president.
Cllr. Wesley completed the term of the former LFA
president, who is now the Speaker of the House of Representative,
Edwin M. Snow and later joined the process to run for her own term
with the hope of completing what she has already started to help
improve football in the country.
The 12th ordinary congress and elections were held at the BWI
campus in Kakata where hundreds of the association’s members visited
the poll to exercise their political franchise.
The question as to who becomes the next LFA president was
dramatically answered when Representative Rufus Neuville displayed the
counting of the ballots.
Though he did not give the result from the tally immediately,
but mathematicians at the occasion calculated and noticed that Mr.
Sheriff was already defeated by two points.
The counting of the tally was like a sea-saw battle,
with Mr. Sheriff taking the lead through out, but the story changed
when Cllr. Wesley’s votes came in sequence till she defeated her
opposition. Cllr. Wesley, who became the first female elected
president of the association sinks her able Vice president for
administration by two points, 45-43.
Even though we were not fortunate to witness the 1980s LFA
elections, but the just ended congress and elections were considered
as the most transparent and democratic process in the history of the
Liberia Football Association where hundreds of sports administrators
and observers watched democracy displayed in sports.
The race between the two aspirants was highly competitive to
the extent that no one could predict the winner, but the two
candidates lately gained more momentum, but with the decisions of the
electorates, Cllr. Wesley was declared the winner.
In the race for the Vice president for administration ,Mr.
Pennoh Bestman went unopposed, thus automatically qualifying him for
the position, while for the Vice President for Operation post, Mr.
Adolp Lawrence out weighted Mr. Bedford Weeks 52-34 to claim the
position as VPO elect of the association.
Making a brief remark at the occasion, the LFA
president elect, thanked the electorates for voting their choice for
the betterment of football in the country.
Also at the LFA congress, thirteen persons were elected
to serve on the FA executive committee. The following persons include,
Moustapha Raji and Rodney Wilson from the Premier division, while from
the first division, Peter Kabia and Kadiatu Diarrah are members of the
LFA exxutive committee.
The second division will be represented by Abayomi O.
Cauleridi and Urias Glaybo , while David E. Kortie will represent the
female division.Others are, Joseph Willie, Academy, Peegee M. Wright,
LONA, and Garmondeh Karnga, Sub-Association. While Mohammed Sheriff
will represent the LFA Sub-Association. LIFRA will be represented by
Idrissa Kaba and D. Sheba Browne, Affiliate. |
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