CAF rejects Pinnick’s nomination for FIFA seat

CAF has refused to endorse Amaju Pinnick’s nomination, which would have enabled him to contest for a FIFA council seat later this month.

The football body has announced seven possible candidates, that will contest for the elections into the FIFA Council scheduled for September 29.

They are: Almamy Kabele Camara (Guinea); Suketu Patel (Sychelles); Kwesi Nyantakyi (Ghana); Ahmad (Madagascar); Augustin Senghor (Senegal); Hamidou Djibrilla (Niger) and Chabur Goc Alei (South Sudan).

The seven candidates will undergo the FIFA integrity test, before their names are finally ratified for the ballot.

Only on Tuesday, Pinnick admitted that he was desperate to get into either CAF or FIFA.

“As big as Nigeria, we don’t have a representative in CAF or in FIFA, so if I am ambitious to go to CAF or FIFA, yes because I am the president of the NFF, not because I’m just a member,” the NFF president told Lagos-based radio station, Lagos Talks FM.

“I am praying about it and if God wills it, why not? But the truth is Nigeria needs a presence globally and this is exactly what we are doing.”

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