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| Ahmad Ahmad, CAP President elect |
Football
Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar
has been elected the new president of the Confederation of African Football
(CAF) following general elections held on Thursday, March 16.
CAF has only ever had five
presidents in its 60-year history and the last time a new leader was appointed
was way back in 1988 when Issa Hayatou was named the President.
Ahmad defeated Cameroon's
Issa Hayatou to win the presidency with 34 votes to his counterpart's 20 votes.
Thursday's election in
Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, saw Hayatou, who was in charge for nearly
three decades defeated.
He has often been
re-elected unopposed. On the two occasions when he did face a challenge, he won
with landslides amongst the electorate of presidents of Africa's football
associations.
In 2000, he beat Angola's
Armando Machado by 47-4 votes and four years later he defeated Ismail Bhamjee
of Botswana by 46-6 votes.
Ahmad campaigned on the
platform of administrative reform, financial transparency and a potential
re-organisation of Caf competitions.
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