AFN crisis lingers as Okowa, Gusau emerge factional presidents

The battle for the control of the AFN has been raging since a faction of the federation impeached Ibrahim Gusau as the board’s president. Gusau, who challenged his impeachment in court, held on to his position even when the supervisory Ministry of Youth and Sports Development elected to recognise his hitherto vice president as the leader of the federation up until when the boards of all the country’s federations were dissolved.

He was elected unopposed with 43 out of 44 votes cast by the delegates. One of the votes was declared invalid. One of the outgoing AFN board members, Ahmed Kaita, from Northwest, who had earlier indicated his intention to contest for the position of the president, cried foul yesterday following a last-minute cancellation of an earlier order from the AFN secretariat that the northwest zonal election is repeated.

Gusau polled 20 votes while Uche Muoma got just two votes from the 22 delegates present at the venue.

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