Africa supports Sepp Blatter's bid

  1. Posted on Monday 16 May 2011 - 17:20
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    Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    The Confederation of African Football has directed its 53-member associations to throw their weight behind incumbent Fifa president Joseph Sepp Blatter for re-election come June 1. Caf executive committee members came to that conclusion at a meeting in Cairo, Egypt on Monday.
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    The members voted and the majority decided Africa should give its full support to Blatter under whose tenure the continent hosted its first ever World Cup in 2010 since its inception decades ago.

    The decision to sanction its members to give their vote to Blatter could be seen as a ‘thank you’ gift for allowing the ‘dark continent’ to have a fair share of the global football fiesta on home soil and was successfully organized in South Africa.

    Blatter, under whose tenure a lot of Fifa executives especially from Africa have been accused for various bribery allegations, is battling Asian confederation head Mohamed Bin Hammam for another term. Hammam is campaigning for ‘a change’.

    The Swiss already has the full support of European, South American and Oceania confederations.

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