Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi claims the deteriorating state of local game goes beyond the governing body.
Concerns have been raised about quality of the Ghana Premier League after the home-based national team suffered three straight defeats at this year's CHAN tournament.
The country's two representatives-Aduana Stars and AshantiGold- bundled out of the two pan-Afrcan club competitions.
Ghana's number of slots in Africa was reduced from four to two and no club have advanced to the money zone since 2007.
Last month, a select band of locally-based Black Meteors side suffered a humiliating 1-0 reverse at home to Sudan in the 2012 London Olympics qualifier first leg tie.
The Ghana federation has received the flak for overly concentrating on the national team to the detriment of local game.
Nyantakyi, who is seeking re-election at later this month, claims issues about the fallen standards of the league cannot be used as a campaign tool against his administration.
"Here, clubs depend just on sponsorship-The sponsorship is not even enough to keep to the finances of a club all year round. There are real problems and we need to address them from that angle," Nyantakyi told a local radio station
"Some of the people who complain the quality of the league has gone down also run clubs and the question you ask is that what have they done in their small way to help in solving the problem."
He added that: "It goes beyond Ghana FA elections. It's not about me-It is the country and the league and the interest of all us that's at stake. So it will be trivialized if somebody were to say Kwesi Nyantakyi has not done well."