Ghana Football Association President, Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku faces competition from Djibrila Hamidou from Niger for the CAF Executive Council slot for West Africa Zone B.
The elections will be held during the 43rd General Assembly of the continental governing body on Friday, March 12, in Rabat, Morocco.
Kurt Simeon-Okraku has become one of the fastest rising football leaders on the African continent, following his election as GFA President in October 2019.
His competitor is Niger’s Djibrila Hamidou, the man who replaced former Ghana FA President Kwesi Nyantakyi as both WAFU Zone B and CAF Executive Committee Member.
There are 15 Executive Committee slots available to be filled at the elections. Friday’s CAF elections could signal changes in the top hierarchy of CAF’s decision-making body following the 2-year ban handed to President Ahmad Ahmad by FIFA for breaches of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
Find below the various candidates and the positions being contested for:
FIFA positions for CAF elections 2021
Arab/Luso-Spanish speaking group
- Hany Abourida
- Gustavo Ndong Edu
- Khireddine Zetchi
- Fouzi Lekjaa
English-Speaking group
- Lamin Kaba Bajo
- Nicholas Mwendwa
- Walter Nyamilandou
- Wallace Karia
- Amaju Melvin Pinnick
- Kamanga Ndanga Andrew
French speaking group
- Constant Omari Sélémani
- Mathurin De Chacus
- Gbèzondé Kossi Akpovi
- Mamoutou Touré
Women position
- Lydia Nsekera
- Isha Johansen
CAF Exco seats:
UNAF
1.Wadie Jary (Tunisia)
WEST A
- Mamadou Antonio Souaré (Guinea)
- Mustapha Ishola Raji (Liberia)
WEST B
- Djibrilla Hamidou (Niger)
- Edwin Simeon-Okraku (Ghana)
CENTRAL ZONE
- Adoum Djibrine (Chad)
- Seidou Mbombo Njoya (Cameroon)
CECAFA
- Suleiman Waberi (Djibouti)
- Isayas Jira (Ethiopia)
COSAFA
- Feizal Ismael Sidat (Mozambique)
- Elvis Raja Chetty (Seychelles)
- Maclean Cortez Letshwithi (Botswana)
- Arthur De Almeida E. Silva (Angola)
CAF EXCO Women seat:
- Kanizat Ibrahim (Comoros)
- Patricia Rajeriarison (Madagascar)
- Lawson Hogban Latré-Kayti Edzona (Togo)
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