Newly-elected President of the Confederation of African Football, Ahmad Ahmad has declared that “African football cannot be managed by bandits.”
The Madagascar Football Association chief on Thursday ended Issa Hayatou’s long reign, polling 34 votes to the former’s 20.
The result means a change in leadership for the first time since Cameroonian Hayatou took charge in 1988.
“I’m not a candidate who will serve his personal interests,” Ahmad said in a statement before the voting at a congress in Ethiopia.
“African football cannot be managed by bandits,”
He said: “I will reorganize CAF’s financial sector to make it accessible to all sectors and areas.
“Five million dollars, or 50 per cent of earnings from FIFA, will go to African federations.”
Hayatou’s reign has been characterized by secrecy with details of financial transactions with major sponsors hard to come by.
Hayatou has also been reported to the FIFA Ethics Committee over CAF’s partnership with French company Lagadere sports. It is claimed Hayatou handed CAF’s TV rights deal to the company without submitting it to competitive bidding.
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