‘P.V’s death big loss to Ghana football’

A former board member of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Mr Moro Mahama, has described the death of Paul Victor Obeng as a big loss to Ghana football and the nation as a whole.

Moro served on the board of Kotoko between 2001 to 2005 which incidentally was chaired by Mr Obeng.

Paying glowing tribute to the former senior presidential advisor to  President John Dramani Mahama, Mr Mahama said the loss was irreplaceable, saying it was going to take a long time to get a moderate like PV, as he was affectionately called.

 Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra, Mr Mahama, who was among the first group of sympathisers who called on the family of PV, who passed on last Saturday after a sudden illness, said Mr Obeng worked tirelessly during his tenure as chairman of the Kotoko board to keep the Porcupine Warriors afloat  in those very turbulent times.

Mr Obeng, an engineer and politician, served as Chairman for the Committees of Secretaries and Special Advisor on Governmental Affairs in the PNDC and the NDC regimes under former President Jerry John Rawlings and was subsequently appointed chairman of the National Development Planning Commission by President John Evans Atta Mills, a position he held until his death.