{"id":21950,"date":"2025-03-11T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kick442.com\/?p=21950"},"modified":"2025-03-11T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:23:47","slug":"14th-caf-ega-nigerias-amaju-pinnick-favoured-to-retain-fifa-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kick442.com\/fr\/14th-caf-ega-nigerias-amaju-pinnick-favoured-to-retain-fifa-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"14th CAF EGA: Nigeria\u2019s Amaju Pinnick favoured to retain FIFA Council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nigeria\u2019s Amaju Melvin Pinnick is highly favoured to retain his seat as a member of the 37-person FIFA Council \u2013 the supreme governing-organ for world football \u2013 when elections are conducted at the 14th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The debonair football administrator is at the forefront of the race alongside Moroccan Fouzi Lekjaa and Egyptian Hany Abou Rida, with 10 persons to battle for the available five seats when the poll is called inside the Marriott Mena House on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Africa has seven seats on the FIFA Council, with the sitting CAF President\u2019s position guaranteed. One of the seven seats is reserved for a woman, and here, CAF\u2019s sitting 5th vice president Kanizat Ibrahim from the Comoros Islands will slug it out with sitting member Isha Johansen from Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The contest for the FIFA Council seats will certainly be the fiercest ever, with Ivorian Yacine Idriss Diallo, Senegal\u2019s Augustin Senghor, Niger Republic\u2019s Djibrilla \u2018Pele\u2019 Hima Hamidou, Zambia\u2019s Andrew Kamanga, Mauritanian Ahmed Yahya, Benin Republic\u2019s Mathurin De Chacus and Djibouti\u2019s Souleman Hassan Waberi also in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CAF President Patrice Motsepe, who is also unchallenged for a second term at African football\u2019s helm, keeps his seat without any sweat, but will watch keenly as only half of the contestants, all strong and deft politicians in their own rights, make it to the esteemed FIFA Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 54 Member Associations will have the opportunity to vote five persons in the densely-populated male category, and one of the two women. President of NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, who will vote on behalf of Nigeria, landed in Cairo on Sunday in company with the General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Nigeria, which publicly endorsed Pinnick\u2019s candidacy through the Presidency in July 2024, is robustly represented, with Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Alhaji Shehu Dikko, and Director-General, Hon. Bukola Olopade on ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were indications on Tuesday morning that Mauritania\u2019s Yahya may also sail through in the contest at the extraordinary general assembly that begins at 9am Nigeria time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the elections into the FIFA Council, the race for seats into the CAF Executive Committee has been weakened by zonal arrangements that have seen single candidates emerge in most zones, except the southern African region where firestorms are expected.<\/p>\n<p>South African mining billionaire Motsepe comes from the COSAFA region where four candidates viz, Elvis Chetty (Seychelles), Alfred Randriamanampisoa (Madagascar), Mohamed Ally Samir (Mauritius) and Feizal Ismael Sidat (Mozambique), battle for two seats.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Cameroonian legend Samuel Eto\u2019o Fils, who needed the intervention of the Court of Arbitration for Sports to be reinstated on the ballot, is the sole candidate for the UNIFFAC (Central Africa) region, as Mustapha Ishola Raji (Liberia) for the WAFU A zone; Kurt Edwin-Simeon Okraku for the WAFU B zone and; Algeria\u2019s Sadhi Walid for the UNAF (North Africa) zone.<\/p>\n<p>The only female seat is also uncontested, with Congolese Bestine Kazadi the only candidate on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA Council Poll: Amaju Pinnick (Nigeria); Fouzi Lekjaa (Morocco); Hany Abou Rida (Egypt); Ahmed Yahya (Mauritania); Yacine Idriss Diallo (Cote d\u2019Ivoire); Augustin Senghor (Senegal); Djibrilla \u2018Pele\u2019 Hima Hamidou (Niger Republic), Andrew Kamanga (Zambia), Mathurin De Chacus (Benin Republic) and; Souleman Hassan Waberi (Djibouti).<\/p>\n<p>Female Seat: Kanizat Ibrahim (Comoros); Isha Johansen (Sierra Leone)<\/p>\n<p>CAF Exco Poll: Samuel Eto\u2019o (UNIFFAC, unchallenged); Sadhi Walid (UNAF, unchallenged); Mustapha Ishola Raji (WAFU A, unchallenged); Kurt Edwin-Simeon Okraku (WAFU B, unchallenged); Elvis Chetty (COSAFA); Alfred Randriamanampisoa (COSAFA), Mohamed Ally Samir (COSAFA) and; Feizal Ismael Sidat (COSAFA)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>CC : NFF Communications<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Amaju Melvin Pinnick is highly favoured to retain his seat as a member&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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