Ahmad's FIFA ban is a generational betrayal-Obi
By Wisdom Obinna
AIPS Africa President, Mitchell Obi says the issues that have surrounded the tenure of CAF President Ahmad Ahmad is more like a “generational betrayal”
Fifa on Monday handed a five-year ban to Ahmad Ahmad who had been the President of the confederation of African football and a FIFA vice president since 2017, with charges relating to abuse of office, misappropriation of funds, and rules concerning the offering and acceptance of gifts.
Mitchell Obi who was speaking to Today sports live from his base in Lagos said “To think that the Leadership of the game on the continent can come under such severe rebuke, such severe punishment and he promised change and we say little of it.
“That’s why Issa Hayatou where ever he is would be asking what has really changed, is the difference really clear. It’s a generational betrayal and for some of us it’s like going backward”
Ahmad Ahmad took over from Issa Hayatou in 2017 with Elections set to be conducted in 2021 with four other candidates already indicating interests to be part of the polls.
Ivorian sports administrator Jacques Anouma, Mauritanian FA boss Ahmed Yahya, Senegalese Augusten Sengol, and South African Billionaire Patrice Motsepe who is backed by Nigerian Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick.
Veteran Journalist Obi believes Nigeria must take her interest seriously “one thing is sure you also have to look at the Nigerian interest, we have already declared our interest even though we know what our interest is and that is my big worry.
“Motsepe is from South Africa and he is backed by Amaju Pinnick, South Africa, and Nigeria, for me I look at it with another eye. I am not a fan of backing South Africa looking giving the way they’ve treated us overtime, some of us in the university paid hard-earned support to fight apartheid and I know the way south Africa conducted themselves in recent times really looking at Nigerians as targets of Xenophobia didn’t really go down well.
So if you choose to support a South African politically I hope they will understand that we are brothers and they should give us that respect”.
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