Tema Youth president Wilfred Osei, popularly known as Palmer, claims Kwesi Appiah was sacked as Black Stars because he refused to invite a player who was tied with Kurt Okraku.
Appiah had his contract not renewed when Okraku took over as Ghana Football Association president after winning last year's election.
Palmer, who was disqualified from contesting the poll and challenging that decision at CAS, has suggested that Appiah pushed because of refusal to give a call-up to the unnamed player.
Though he did not reveal the identity of the player, it's an open secret that there were latent calls from Dreams FC- a club owned by Okraku-to invited their former player John Antwi for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, where the striker is based.
''Is it not an open secret that because Kwesi Appiah did not call certain kind of players [when he was in charge of Ghana], somebody got agitated and at the end of it all we know the outcome of that decision today,” Palmer told Kumasi-based Fox FM.
Osei, a former Ghana Football Association Executive Committee chairman, in a separate interview with the stated-owned Graphic Sports stated emphatically that some officials have been influencing the selection of players to the detriment of the senior national team.
The former Black Stars management committee member is prepared to quit football if found guilty of influencing a player's call-up into the national team.