ALL STARS TO HOST KOTOKO AT WA (PAGE 47)

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Wa All Stars Football Club, Mr Oduro Nyarko, has assured supporters of the club in the Wa municipality and the Upper West Region as a whole that the seventh week league encounter between Wa All Stars and Kumasi Asante Kotoko will be played at the Wa Stadium.
This, he said, was contrary to the initial decision to transfer the match to the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium so that it could be transmitted live by the Global Broadcasting Services (GBS).
He said the Wa Stadium did not have the required gadgets for the live transmission on GBS, hence an earlier decision to play the match in Accra.
“After travelling for almost 13 hours from Wa to Tamale to play Real Tamale United (RTU) and back, it would not be right to travel to Accra by road to honour the match against Asante Kotoko,” he said, adding, “We were, therefore, compelled to plead with the Professional League Board (PLB) which gave us the go-ahead to honour the match at Wa.”
Mr Nyarko, who was speaking in an interview in reaction to agitation by a section of the fans of All Stars in Wa over the transfer of the seventh week encounter to Accra, further explained that it was the PLB that takes decisions on matches that ought to be covered by the GBS, hence the initial decision to honour the seventh week match between All Stars and Kotoko at the Ohene Djan Stadium.
However, the CEO said, after explaining a few things to the PLB, it gave the nod for the match to be played at Wa.
Mr Nyarko appealed to supporters of All Stars at Wa and the entire region to exercise restraint, saying as the CEO of the club, he was prepared to provide the needed managerial support to both the technical team and the players of the club and, therefore, would not do anything that would go against the team.
“In any case we would still play one of our home matches in either Accra, Essipon or Kumasi because each club is expected to be featured at least once on the network of the GBS,” Mr Nyarko explained, adding that the live broadcast expose the teams, players and the technical team to the world and urged the fans of All Stars to assist him to succeed.
He also pledged to operate an open-door policy and called on supporters and sympathisers of the club to contact him anytime for clarification on matters concerning the club.