CAF ELECTIONS: MORE COUNTRIES QUEUE BEHIND AHMAD AS NIGERIA DECIDES

As Sports Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung and members of the executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, meet today in a bid to overturn Amaju Pinnick’s preference to back Ahmad of Madagascar against incumbent, Issa Hayatou in the March 16 CAF Presidential election, more countries have queued behind Ahmad to further raise the blood pressure of Hayatou and his followers. With 54 countries in CAF, a candidate who polls 28 votes automatically becomes winner of the election.
Already, 21 member countries and more have pledged their votes and loyalty to Ahmad with more countries weighing their options. North Africans have not indicated where their votes would go but feelers show that Ahmad would divide their votes because of a recent face-off with the 71-year-old Hayatou who became President of CAF in Casablanca, Morocco in 1988.
“As you know the whole of COSAFA, which has 15 members are for Ahmad. Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, the Gambia, Sierra Leone are openly supporting the man from Antananarivo. Also, the closeness of FIFA President, Gianni Infantino and Secretary General, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura to the ‘’New Generation’’ who wants to topple the ‘’Old’’ order would be another blow to the Hayatou camp. A reliable source said yesterday that those in Hayatou’s camp have seen the handwriting on the wall and are determined to turn the table, little wonder, therefore, they want to upturn NFF’s decision to follow Ahmad.
One of the Hayatou loyalists said that if they could succeed in turning the tide for Nigeria to support Hayatou, other countries would also make a U-turn to go with Nigeria. As at yesterday, there were consultations in high places outside sports to support Ahmad or Hayatou. As for the Nigerian members of CAF who have thrown their weight behind Hayatou, a source said that they were only interested in solidifying their positions in CAF and not necessarily because of Nigeria’s interest

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