Former Asante Kotoko Chief Executive Officer, Jarvis Peprah has blamed the club’s board Chairman Dr. Kwame Kyei and CEO Nana Yaw Amponsah for the club’s inability to win the 2020/21 Ghana Premier league title.
According to him, Nana Yaw Amponsah and his boss failed to hold to the massive support the fans offered them prior to the start of the season into glory.
Kotoko lost the league title to rivals Hearts of Oak after finishing second on the league standings. The Porcupine Warriors also got kicked out of the FA Cup by Berekum Chelsea via penalty shootouts last Sunday at the Obuasi Len Clay Stadium.
“Nana Yaw Amponsah got goodwill from the onset from the supporters but unfortunately, we couldn’t carry on to the end of the season,” He told Hello FM in Kumasi.
“And the sour relationship between the board chairman and the CEO which was all over radio was very bad.
“The way the board chairman’s radio station attacks Kotoko CEO is not good. It’s part of the reasons why we failed to win the league.
“At a point, I think Nana Yaw Amponsah too didn’t behave well. If you have a misunderstanding with your board chairman he shouldn’t have left it like that. He failed to control his ego. Because we should know how to manage egos.
“I kept asking myself what was going on because I felt we have a lot of people in Kumasi who could have helped solve the issue.
“What was the use of the board? The board chairman’s radio station consistently insult the team’s CEO but I didn’t hear of any release from the board to condemn it.
“I didn’t see the board warning the CEO not to grant an interview about the matter neither did they talk to the board chairman to stop his workers from attacking the CEO of the club on air.
”I believe that the board of directors didn’t do well at all. I’m surprised they failed to solve this row between the two. It has cost us the league and FA Cup.
“The success of Kotoko is not about the ongoing development at Adako Jachie and selling at the market to generate money for the club.
“If we do all these but fail to win trophies that are not Kotoko. ” Jarvish Peprah concluded.
