A total of five candidates will stand for two additional positions on FIFA’s ruling Council when the Confederation of African Football (CAF) is due to hold an Extraordinary Congress in Cairo tomorrow.
A total of seven officials from across the region had initially declared their intention to run for the places on the expanded Council, which replaced the Executive Committee under reforms initiated due to the corruption crisis within FIFA.
Two of those have since withdrawn, including Suketu Patel of the Seychelles, the first vice-president of CAF.
Patel’s decision to pull out of the race was announced today but no reason has been given.
He was considered of the favourites to claim a place on the FIFA Council.
Chabur Goc Alei, President of the South Sudan Football Association, who went against the recommendation of the CAF Executive Committee by backing Gianni Infantino over Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa for the President of FIFA earlier this year, has also withdrawn.
CAF second vice-president Almamy Kabele Camara of Guinea and fellow Executive Committee members Kwesi Nyantakyi, President of the Ghana Football Association, and Madagascar’s Ahmad remain in the running.
Hamidou Djibrilla and Augustin Senghor, Presidents of the Niger and Senegal Football Associations respectively, are the others seeking a place on the FIFA Council.
The two candidates who are successful will only have a temporary seat on the Council, however, as they will face re-election at the CAF Congress in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on March 17.
The CAF already has a female representative on the ruling body, Burundi's Lydia Nsekera, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee.
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