Dr Kofi Amoah, Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for next year's African Cup of Nations is optimistic about Ghana’s ability to host a successful tournament.

The chairman of Ghana's LOC revealed Ghana's preparedness to meet the demands of hosting the rest of the continent with barely 40 days to kick off during a three-day inspection visit that ended on Monday by the Confederation of African Football.

Though accommodation remains a major concern Dr Amoah assured that the LOC is putting measures in place to ensure the expected one million tourists who will be visiting Ghana during the January 20 – February 10 Championship have decent accommodation.

“We have made alternative accommodation arrangements to meet up the demands of the visiting teams and fans.

“We are very focussed in making sure all the training pitches and other forms of preparations are intact.”

CAF's inspection team led by Slim Aloulou, Executive Committee member, rated Ghana as 90 percent through regarding preparations towards the event.

The visit was CAF's tenth inspection of facilities earmarked for the competition.

The inspection team expressed satisfaction with the state of Transportation, Accreditation, Media, Security with respect to the biennial championship.

Dr Amoah stated that LOC will step up its gear towards to meet the remaining 10 percent and achieve their objectives of hosting a successful tourney.

“Our objective is to host a fabulous tournament that would become the watershed for the future of African football.”

Ghana is hosting the competition the third time after 1965 and 1978. The four-time African Champions co-hosted the 2000 edition with Nigeria.