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Augustin Senghor, director of the Senegal Football Federation, announced on Friday that he will participate in the presidential elections of the African Football Confederation (CAF) in March.
“Now I’m waiting for CAF to publish the list” of candidates, said Senghor, a lawyer by training, who declined to comment further.
Senghor, who is already a member of the CAF executive committee, has been president of the federation in Senegal since 2009.
The football official is also the mayor of the island of Gorée, a former slave trade center of about 2,000 inhabitants that sits off the coast of Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
He joins a career that includes current CAF president Ahmad Ahmad, a Malagasy national seeking a second term despite accusations, which he denies, of presiding over financial irregularities.
Ahmed Yahya from Mauritania, Jacques Anouma from Ivory Coast and South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe have also thrown themselves into the ring.
Senegal’s national team, which includes Liverpool’s Sadio Mane, is number 21 in the FIFA world rankings and is the highest-ranked African squad.
