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The president of the Nigerian Football Association, Amajo Pinnick, decided to withdraw from the next CAF elections and his full support went to Patrice Mutsibi, president and owner of Mamelodi Sundowns. According to a report published by the “BBC” chain.
The report indicated that Pinnick preferred not to run for the presidency and instead unified efforts to ensure the success of Mutsipi, who would compete with Ahmed Ahmed, the current president, and Ivorian Jacques Anoma.
In the same context, the BBC brought very bad news for Ahmed Ahmed, the current president of the CAF, as the Malagasy is about to be sanctioned by the FIFA Ethics Committee.
The BBC said: “We work from sources that although Ahmed Ahmed ran for president in October, KAF’s entry into the next election race is in doubt.”
“Ahmed Ahmed faces the sanction of being banned from participating in any football-related activity after he was found guilty of violating various laws and the FIFA code of ethics.”
The South African Football Association previously announced that it had put forward Patrice Mutseppe, president and owner of Mamelodi Sundowns, as a candidate for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). And that at a press conference. (See details)
CAF opens the door to run for president until next Thursday.
Elections will be held on March 12 at CAF’s Extraordinary General Assembly in Rabat, while enough candidates will be officially announced on January 11.
Ahmed Ahmed is currently under investigation by the FIFA Ethics Committee, and this investigation may hamper his attempts to run for a second term, after Amr Fahmy, the former secretary general of “CAF”, made several complaints in his against before the governing body of soccer in the world. . Ahmed denied all the charges.
The French anti-corruption authorities also took up one of the accusations against Ahmed Ahmed, which was based on a “controversial” BBC deal, with the company “Tactical Steel”, an unknown French gym manufacturer run by an old friend of Ahmed Ahmed. That it had provided sportswear equipment to CAF in 2017 after canceling an original deal with Puma, and yet that deal cost four times the deal with Puma.
FIFA has not yet released the results of the investigation, but has sent them to CAF’s Financial Review Department. A previous report said that PwC suspected missing funds valued at more than $ 20 million, and called for more investigation into Ahmed’s role in the Tatical Steel case. “.
FIFA reviewed with CAF in an unprecedented procedure in the world of football, after sending its general secretary, Fatima Samoura, to act as general secretary of the African continent from August 2019 to February 2020 in a maneuver to “improve football management on the continent”.
