{"id":235308,"date":"2026-06-04T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-initiate-processes-to-remove-caf-president-dr-motsepe-from-office-2-petitioners-urges-gfa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:23:08","slug":"ghana-initiate-processes-to-remove-caf-president-dr-motsepe-from-office-2-petitioners-urges-gfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-initiate-processes-to-remove-caf-president-dr-motsepe-from-office-2-petitioners-urges-gfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Initiate Processes to Remove CAF President Dr Motsepe From Office&#8230; 2 Petitioners Urges GFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Two concerned Ghanaians have petitioned the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to initiate discussions and processes within African football that will lead to the removal of CAF President, Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe, from office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The petitioners &#8211; Political Activist, Solomon Owusu, and Lawyer Andrew Appiah-Danquah, urged the GFA to lead efforts to review whether Dr Motsepe remains the right person to head the Confederation of African Football (CAF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The call followed the xenophobic violence recorded&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two concerned Ghanaians have petitioned the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to initiate discussions and processes within African football that will lead to the removal of CAF President, Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe, from office. The petitioners &#8211; Political Activist, Solomon Owusu, and Lawyer Andrew Appiah-Danquah, urged the GFA to lead efforts to review whether Dr Motsepe remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3742,7795,4508,4509,13714,28851,257,8089,32202,2450,23847,11893,254,6810],"class_list":["post-235308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-gfa","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-initiate","tag-motsepe","tag-news","tag-office","tag-petitioners","tag-president","tag-processes","tag-remove","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}