Former Ghanaian Football star 'Michael Essien' has been the subject of much controversy lately, After his comment supporting the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Queer Community in Ghana

The Ex Chelsea star who made the post on Instagram after an LGBTQ center was recently closed down faced a lot of backlash from Ghanaians.

The controversial post has since been deleted by the controversial star, however it was too late for the football star who saw his Twitter following suffer a huge drop from 1.7 million followers. to less than 700,000 at the time of this report.