Christopher Matthias, General Secretary of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) has won the nomination of that club to contest the presidency of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)
Lavern Fraser, Acting President of the GFA said that the special general members’ meeting was called yesterday to deal specifically with the nomination for the GFF top post.
“We the executive members have been mandated by our General Council members to make nominations for all the positions of the GFF,” said Fraser-Thomas.
Those nominated are: Akram Sabree, Charles Greaves and Rawle Adams for the posts of the three Vice Presidents and Mark Phillips and Fizal Khan as the two committee members.
“Those were the nominations coming from the General Council and we as executive members plan to honour that mandate,” Fraser-Thomas added.
Fraser said too that apart from Matthias, the other two nominations for the post were that of Colonel Bruce Lovell of the Guyana Defence Force and Joseph Harmon, A Partnership for National Unity Member of Parliament and Attorney at Law.
Matthias won nine of the 13 votes while Lovell secured two and Harmon one. The clubs that voted for Matthias were: Fruta Conquerors, Sunburst Camptown, Bacons, Riddim Squad, Pele, Houston Stars, GFC and Northern Rangers. The Guyana Defence Force and the University of Guyana voted for Lovell while Alpha United voted for Harmon. Santos abstained from voting.
Matthias, when reached for a comment said he was pleased to have the support of the association and that to contest the election was not his first choice but said that he was encouraged by members of corporate Guyana and several clubs to contest the post.
“If I am elected as president I will seek to have what I have been advancing for the last two or the years the collective conscious on the standing agreement as to what the objective has been for the development of football and in terms of the structure, in terms of assistance.
I am hoping to have an executive that consists of visionaries, who must be of a developmental mindset and who must have the respect of the corporate society and an environment in which there is equitable distribution of the bounty of FIFA’s largess. That there is accountability, transparency and that the monies and every benefit of FIFA should go where ought to go,” he declared.
