‘Otumfuor is one of Kotoko’s biggest issues’ –  Nana Agyemang

By  Joseph AGBOBLI, Accra

Football coach Nana Agyemang has expressed his belief that Asante Kotoko’s life patron, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is one of the club’s “biggest issues” responsible for their current challenges.

Despite being one of the most storied clubs in Ghanaian football, Kotoko have struggled in recent years.

The Porcupine Warriors have won only one Ghana Premier League title in the past nine years and have failed to advance past the round of 16 in any CAF Inter-club competition.

Currently, the team is enduring a poor run of form, managing just two victories in their last ten matches.

Under the management of Prosper Narteh Ogum, Kotoko sit in 10th place on the league table with 36 points, only five points above the relegation zone.

“When you look at Manchester United, a very big club, I don’t know the patron. The patrons of those clubs don’t feature and figure in the same way that Otumfuo does,” Agyemang told JoySports.

“We are supposed to be having some competent people sitting around a table being the board managing this club and we can never ever get to that stage.

“The King is one big issue for me, then the management members that he selects is another problem, how they are selected represent another problem because huge lobbying goes on.”

Otumfuo has established an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to oversee the operations of Asante Kotoko.

The committee includes Nana Apinkra Akwasi Awua, Akwasi Appiah, Coach Dr. Prosper Narteh Ogum, and Emmanuel Newton Dasoberi.

This decision was made subsequent to the dissolution of the previous management team, which was led by Chief Executive Officer Nana Yaw Amponsah.