Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has revealed how he funded his takeover for Ghana Premier League side, Karela United.
Haruna Iddrisu in the early part of 2023 became the owner of Karela United after completing the takeover for an undisclosed fee barely a year after his player Fatawu Issahaku joined Portuguese giants Sporting CP.
Speaking on his takeover at Karela United, Haruna Iddrisu said the transfer fee from Fatawu Issahaku’s transfer to Sporting CP was used to acquire the Ayinase-based club.
“It was more an accidental decision. It was not my wish. A very good friend of mine called and said, ‘Haruna, can you help? I want you to show interest in Karela.”
I told him I don’t have the money. He said, ‘Haruna, do your best, try and save this team and save Karela for me.’ So, we went in and have become very excited about it.”
“My dream now is to stabilize Karela in the Ghana Premier League, contribute to making it competitive, contribute to getting our players into various national teams and giving young people the opportunity, those who have football talent to realise their fullest potential and make a living or fortune out of it. It was desirably arisen out of the sale Fatawu Issahaku that we used it to do Karela and probably to run Steadfast along the line,” he said on TV3’s GPL Express.
