The General Assembly of the Confederation of Africa Football have elected Ghana's Kwesi Nyantakyi onto its Executive Committee.

Nyantakyi, President of the Ghana Football Association secured a comprehensive majority over Benin's Anjorin Moucharafou to represent the Zone West B bloc on the Caf Executive Committee.

The 43 year-old pulled 34 votes to be declared the winner with Anjorin recording 19 as 53 delegates went to the polls in Khartoum, Sudan.

Nyantakyi, who was making his first continental electoral attempt ends country's 17-year wait and becomes the first Ghanaian to secure a place on the Executive Committee since 1994 when Sam Okyere last served in the post.

The Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association in July 2010 nominated Kwesi Nyantakyi as a candidate for Executive Committee of CAF.

Results for Caf's Executive Committee (to cover 2011-2015):

Northern Zone

Tarek Bouchamaoui (Tunisia)

Zone West A

Almamy Kabele Camara (Guinea)

Zone West B

Kwesi Nyantakyi (Ghana)

Central Zone

Omari Constant (DR Congo)

Central-East Zone

Leodegar Tenga (Tanzania)

Southern Zone

Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia)