The Governance Committee of the CAF met in Cairo on January 5 and 6, 2021 convened by its President Mr Michel Kizito Brizoua-Bi, to carry out the eligibility checks of candidates for the positions of CAF President and members of the CAF Executive Committee.
Five candidates officially stood for CAF Presidency and 16 others registered for the position of members of CAF Executive Committee. None was Nigerian.
According to a statement from CAF, the current Senegalese Football Federation president, Mr Augustin Emmanuel Senghor, former Ivorian Football Federation president, Mr Jacques Bernard Daniel Anouma; Mauritanian Football Federation president, Mr Ahmed Yahya and Mamelodi Sundowns FC president, Mr Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe are the candidates for the CAF presidency.
- January 8, 2021
The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has ruled that just two of the five candidates for March’s presidential elections are eligible so far – with President Ahmad not among them.
The Malagasy has been ‘declared ineligible’ given his five-year Fifa ban, although his camp have slim hopes an ongoing appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) could change this.
Both former Ivory Coast football federation president Jacques Anouma and current Senegal FA president Augustin Senghor have been authorised to contest the March elections in Morocco.
Further checks are required before either Mauritania FA president Ahmed Yahya and Patrice Motsepe, the South African who owns Mamelodi Sundowns, can be added to the list of candidates.