No To Andy Quamie

Mr Andy Quamie-Club President

By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.

The President of the second division side Diamond FC, Mr. Ebenezer Barclay has reacted to media reports quoting Watanga FC Vice President Andy Quamie as suggesting a football conference in the wake of a row between Executive Committee Members of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) that would have loved to see Siaka A. Sheriff at the helm of Liberian football against the current LFA President, Cllr. Sombo Izetta Wesley.

Such conference, Quamie says, should include both losers and winners of the March 18, 2006 elections of the LFA that took place on the campus of the Booker Washington Institute (BWI) in Kakata, Margibi County so as to thrash out their differences.

"While it is true that everyone's view should be respected, I think the statement by Mr. Quamie, I have an opposing view," Barclay indicated.
Moreover, the Diamond FC head declared: "The elections were held and Cllr. Wesley won as President of the LFA.

"So, if he feels that there are problems at the LFA, let him point out the problems so that as stakeholders at the LFA, we all can address ourselves to the problems."

For Barclay's personal view, the LFA President does not have the problems that perhaps Quamie thinks exist within the LFA.
"If the President had insisted on Mr. (Yanqueh) Borsay, then we all could say 'she has the problem.'"Instead, she respected their decision and recommended another name. Yet still, they rejected the name only to tell other stakeholders that they want to recommend a Secretary-General to the President," Barclay said.

By the action of the LFA Executive Committee members (loyal to Sheriff) in rejecting the second nominee of the LFA boss in Peegee Wright, known to be highly educated than the very persons that don't want him, Mr. Barclay wonders whether "they are reading the statutes of the LFA on the appointment of the Secretary-General to the Executive Committee for endorsement.

"But to my utmost surprise, the very group that opposed Mr. Borsay is the one that rejected Mr. Wright."

Mr. Barclay viewed the move by the Executive Committee Members as a clear indication that they are only being deployed there to undermine not only the President of the LFA but also the development of the game in the country.

The club head then called on stakeholders to see it as the time for them to get involved in the issue surrounding the appointment of a Secretary-General by rescuing the situation in any way possible.