"Partey is not travelling as a tourist ” - Solomon Owusu, Director of Communications, United Party

[00:00:00]But the point is that I believe that we should have withdrawn from the tournament the moment they denied him visa. Canada cannot be sitting down there and doing whatever pleases them.

[00:00:08]Partey is not coming there as a tourist.

[00:00:10]Partey is coming to Canada to play for the national team of Ghana. You understand? A person is innocent until proven guilty. So, if FIFA the competition has been organized by FIFA. If FIFA you have organized a tournament, Ghana played qualifying series. We qualified and we have presented our footballers. It does not lie in the mouth of Canada to say that this person or Mr. A or Mr. B has charges in the UK, so we are not going to allow the person. So, if they do that in future competitions, what is going to happen is that assuming Ghana is hosting the World Cup, we will just look at France, look at Mbappé, look at Aurélien and say, "Look, when we checked your visa application form, we believe that ABCD is not right. We have denied you." Is that the way FIFA wants us to behave? By the way, Canada that is saying that Partey has criminal charges. Have they not been entertaining my charges? My cousin wasn't convicted of rape cases. Has Snoop Dogg not been going to Canada in spite of all the charges that the convictions that he has received? So, it is because the person is from Ghana, he's a black person, we don't have any class. That's why they have been behaving over there. We must not entertain them.