Amaju Pinnick loses FIFA council seat, Patrice Motsepe leads CAF again

Amaju Pinnick loses FIFA council seat, Patrice Motsepe leads CAF again

Former President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has lost his re-election into the FIFA council.

But South African Patrice Motsepe was re-elected unopposed as the President of Confederation of African Football (CAF), to serve a second four-year term.

Pinnick could not secure the required votes to earn one of the six membership positions for Africa on the council.

The former NFF president scored 28 votes in the election held at the 14th CAF extraordinary general assembly on Wednesday in Cairo, Egypt.

Elected members are Faouzi Lekjaa of Morocco, Mauritania’s Ahmed Yahya, Kanizat Ibrahim of Comoros, Djibouti’s Souleiman Waberi, Hamidou Djibrilla of Niger and Egypt’s Hani Abo Rida.

Pinnick had just one vote less than Yahya and Waberi who clinched the final two slots.

Motsepe secured a second term during CAF’s extraordinary general assembly held in Cairo on Wednesday, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in attendance.

He was elected by acclamation in Morocco four years ago, succeeding Malagasy Ahmad Ahmad, who had been suspended by FIFA over financial misconduct.