Former President of the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick has misplaced his bid to be re-elected into the FIFA Council, Soccernet.ng studies.

The FIFA Council is probably the most highly effective soccer resolution making physique, and it contains of 37 members, who’re elected throughout the assorted confederations. It’s typically made up of the FIFA President, eight vice presidents and 28 different members elected by the member associations.

Pinnick has been a member of that physique since 2021, when he received the elections in Africa. Nonetheless, he has been campaigning for a second time period in current months.

Sadly, his efforts have come to waste as he misplaced his bid to assert one of many 5 out there tickets for the lads, following the elections that held on the Confederation of African Soccer Normal Meeting on Wednesday, March 12.

Pinnick was up towards 9 different contestants for the 5 tickets. They embrace; Hany Abou Rida (Egypt) who’s looking for re-election; Fouzi Lekjaa (Morocco) looking for re-election; Yahya Ahmed (Mauritania); Souleiman Waberi (Djibouti); Idriss Dialli (Cote d’Ivoire); Mathurin Chakus (Benin Republic); Augustine Senghor (Senegal); Djibrilla Pele Hamidou (Niger Republic); and Andrew Kamanga (Zambia).

The 5 male representatives have been determined by the primary 5 candidates with the highes votes. Sadly for Pinnick, on the CAF Normal Meeting, he simply fell quick by one vote.

He had simply 28 vote, one wanting Waberi and Yahya, who had 29. Rida and Hamidou additionally pulled 35 votes every, whereas Lekjaa had 49 votes. As such, they are going to be Africa’s representatives on the FIFA Council.

What’s Nigeria’s destiny now that Pinnick is out of FIFA?

Pinnick is Nigeria’s first consultant at FIFA in a few years, however his presence has not precisely completed a lot for Nigeria.

Furthermore, Africa’s spot on the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup has just lately been lowered from 5 to 4.

Apart from bagging rights and a place on the desk, Pinnick’s presence on the FIFA Council has modified a lot.

In the meantime, the present President of CAF Patrice Motsepe received his re-election bid and will likely be accountable for African Soccer for the following 4 years.