Nigeria’s Amaju Pinnick wins CAF election after opponent called him “small boy”
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick, has been elected into the CAF Executive Committee.
Pinnick defeated his Beninoise counterpart Anjorin Ayodele Moucharafou with 32 vote to 17. Moucharafou had reportedly called the Nigerian football chief “small boy”.
The Nigerian’s victory came on the same day Madagascar FA chief Ahmad Ahmad toppled Issa Hayatou to emerge CAF President.
Hayatou was at the helms for 29 years.
Congratulations to our president, @PinnickAmaju who has just been elected into the CAF Executive committee. #CAFGA2017 #AmajuPinnick 🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/k8daqMYPM0
— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) March 16, 2017
Here’s the rest of the report from NFF.com…
Madagascan Ahmad on Thursday became the new president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), after he thrashed incumbent Issa Hayatou of Cameroon 34-20 at elections held in the Nelson Mandela Hall of the African Union building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Many had expected the results to be much closer, but the Malagasy FA president and deputy senate president of his country shocked everyone by winning with a clear margin.
At the elections witnessed by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Secretary General, Fatma Samoura and declared open by President Mulatu Teshome of Ethiopia, Nigeria’s Amaju Pinnick was among those elected into the CAF Executive Committee.
Pinnick, who was derogatorily referred to as a “small boy” by his opponent, crushed Beninoise FA president Anjorin Moucharafou to become only the third Nigerian ever in the CAF Executive Committee.
Also elected into the CAF elite club are Fouzi Lekjaa (Morocco) who thumped incumbent Mohamed Raouraoua of Algeria 41-7; Musa Bility of Liberia who defeated Amadou Diakite of Mali 26-22; Souleman Waberi of Djibouti who got 20 votes to defeat Magda Shams el Din, Juneidi Tilmo and Moses Magogo.
Danny Jordaan of South Africa and Eduardo da Costa of Angola were elected from the southern zone, while Sierra Leonean, Isha Johansen, got 25 votes to pick the only female slot ahead of Lydia Nsekera of Burundi who had only 12.
