Unlike the FIFA Council seat, candidates for the CAF executive committee elections are not subjected to an integrity test.
Eng. Moses Magogo will once again toss himself on the ballot to defend his CAF Executive Committee (CECAFA rep) seat on Thursday 13th July, when the 54 football nations of the continent sit for the 45th Ordinary General Assembly in Cotonou, Ivory Coast.
Magogo will be up against former CECAFA and long-serving Sudan Football Association president Dr Mutasim Gafar Sirelkhatim.
Mutassim can be remembered for the controversial manner in which he beat former FUFA president and Vipers director Lawrence Mulindwa to the CECAFA presidency in November 2021.
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Mutassim emerged the victor with six out of the ten votes to beat both Mulindwa, who garnered three and former Rwandan football boss Vincent Nzamwita who polled one.
A cold war ensued after that poll as supporters of the Kitende faction felt that their successors at Mengo betrayed them in those polls.
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Debut
Magogo first stood for the continental post on March 16th, 2017 when he vied against Djibouti’s Sulaiman Waberi but came fourth out of the four contestants.
He polled seven, 13, short of Waberi’s count as Ethiopian Juneido Basha and Magdi Shams from Sudan garnered nine and 12, respectively, in the famous Addis Ababa elections that witnessed novice Ahmad Ahmad end Issa Hayatou’s near-three-decade reign.
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Ahmad offered a lifeline to Magogo's ambitions and co-opted him to the exco.
He came back in full force on July 18th 2019, in Cairo, Egypt, to beat seasoned Tanzania administrator Leodgar Tenga by 33 to 19 votes to represent CECAFA for the period 2019-2023.
Waberi is the other member serving the exco representing the Easter Africa region. He was re-elected in the 2021-25 cycle and rewarded the third vice president seat under a pact that brought in current CAF president Patrice Motsepe without a single ballot cast.
If elected or re-elected, Mutassim and Magogo will serve until July 2027.
The CECAFA region has twelve nations, including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
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The others are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. However, all 54 CAF members vote for the representatives.
Neutrality
“Their terms begin right at the end of the General Assembly in which they were elected,” CAF statutes dictate.
“The President and the Executive Committee members shall not be elected for more than three terms (whether consecutive or not),” it adds.
However, it remains to be seen how CAF will conduct the event, especially now that Magogo has been in partisan national politics since January 2021.
He was elected as a member of Parliament for Budiope East constituency under the ruling party National Resistance Movement card.
The CAF and FIFA code of ethics demands that all the direct servants of the sport remain politically neutral.
He is also standing for the first time after serving a ban in October 2019 for the illegal reselling of the 2014 World Cup tickets.
CAF executive elections for 2023-2027Eastern Africa (CECAFA)
Dr. Mutasim Gafar Sirelkhatim (Sudan)
Magogo Moses Hassim (Uganda)
Southern Africa (COSAFA)
Walter Nyamilandu Manda (Malawi)Mokhosi Phillip Mohapi (Lesotho)Mohamad Ally Sobha (Mauritius)
West Africa A (WAFU A)
Augustin Senghor (Senegal) – unopposed
West Africa B (WAFU B)
Lazare Bansse (Burkina Faso)Colonel Gbezonde Kossi (Togo)
Central Africa (UNIFFAC)
Pierre Alain Mounguengui (Gabon) – unopposed
North Africa (UNAF)
Zefizef Djahid Abledwahab (Algeria)Abdulhakim Alshelmani (Libyan)
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