CAF election: Ivorian Jacques Anouma sets foot in the dish
Jacques Anouma in 2008. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO
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In an interview with AFP on Tuesday March 2, Ivorian Jacques Anouma believes that the willingness given to Fifa to find a consensus around South African Patrice Motsepe to chair the African Football Confederation (CAF) is only 'agreement in principle ".
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The election of the next CAF president should not be a long quiet river as FIFA hopes.
While the four candidates in the running had visibly agreed last weekend on a
distribution of posts
with the South African billionaire
Patrice Motsepe
as president, as would wish Fifa, the Ivorian candidate
Jacques Anouma
, in a interview with AFP on Tuesday, March 2, considers that it is only an "
agreement in principle
" and considers the method "
not too democratic
".
"
What is happening is not too democratic
"
“
Our countries have to accept and validate it.
We gave ourselves until March 5 for this agreement to be validated,
”said the Ivorian candidate.
According to him, the “
minutes which were initialed
” at the end of this meeting in Rabat “
should not be known by anyone
”.
“
I am shocked.
We put more emphasis on a distribution of posts than an agreement to move towards unity.
We have the impression that we have sacrificed Africa on the altar of our personal ambitions
, ”said Anouma, former member of the Fifa executive committee.
"
If my constituents, my base and the authorities tell me
'we are not interested, let's go to elections'
, I would not shirk my responsibilities,
" says Jacques Anouma.
“
What is happening is not too democratic, we impose a pattern on voters.
Who tells you that they are takers?
He adds.
Jacques Anouma is due to meet the President of the Ivorian Republic, Alassane Ouattara.
According to sources close to the candidates,
Augustin Senghor
(Senegal) and
Ahmed Yahya
(Mauritania) would be ready to accept Fifa's proposal: if they give up standing in the ballot scheduled for March 12 to leave the scene to the southern billionaire. African, supported by Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, they will be first and second vice-presidents.
Jacques Anouma would be offered a post of adviser to the president.
According to the Senegalese daily
Sud Quotidien,
Senegal has already signed the deal during a meeting of the Emergency Committee of the Senegalese Football Federation which was held on March 2.
Fifa asks for clarification on campaign money
Jacques Anouma received on February 26 a letter from the governing body of the round ball asking him to account for the financing of his campaign.
Fifa suspects the candidate of having benefited from financial support from the Ivorian authorities worth around 15 million euros.
"
It should be noted that the candidate does not receive funding from the Ivorian authorities, the latter having undertaken, through the press release sanctioning the Council of Ministers of January 20, 2021, to carry out diplomatic and relational actions for the promotion of candidacy,
”Anouma replied in a press release dated March 2 March.
This Wednesday, Jacques Anouma is in Guinea, in Conakry, where he has a series of meetings.
After the meeting in Rabat, each candidate returned to his country for consultations.
They must meet next weekend in Nouakchott during the CAN U20 final, to make a choice before the election on March 12.
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