On the 16th of March, Issa Hayatou was deposed as the president of the Confederation of African Football after 29 years in power. He was defeated resoundingly by Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar by a vote of 34 votes to 20. With most of the credit of the upset going to Phillip Chiyangwa the President of ZIFA and Cosafa, who was Ahmad’s campaign manager.
Some people were interested in knowing who had voted to retain Hayatou or who had voted for change. Here is how they voted.
ISSA HAYATOU (CAMEROON) – 20 votes
Anjorin Moucharafou (Benin Republic)
Sidiki A Roko (Cameroon)
Victor Osorio (Cape Verde)
Andres-Jorge Mbomio (Equatorial Guinea)
Pierre Alain Mounguengui (Gabon)
Lamin Kaba Bajo (The Gambia)
Mohamed Souare-(Guinea)
Augustino (South Sudan)
Manuel Lopes Nascimento (Guinea Bissau)
Jafaar (Libya)
Vincent Nzamwita (Rwanda)
Ravia Idarus Fahinda (Zanzibar)
Jamal Malinzi (Tanzania)
Mohamed Raouraoua (Algeria)
Augustin Senghor (Senegal)
Reverien Ndikuriyo (Burundi)
Kossi Akpovy (Togo)
Tourqui Salim (Comoros)
Abdiqani Said Arab (Somalia)
Mutasim Gafaar Sirelkhatim (Sudan)
AHMAD (MADAGASCAR) – 34 votes
Mclean Letshwiti (Botswana)
Edouard Ngaissona (Central Africa Republic)
Mahamoud Moctar (Chad)
Souleiman Hassan Waberi (Djibouti)
Jean Michel Mbono (Congo)
Domingos Monteiro (Sao Tome e Principe)
Omari Constant Selemani (DR Congo)
Augustin Sidy Diallo (Cote d’Ivoire)
Boubacar Diarra (Mali)
Hany Abo Rida (Egypt)
Elvis Chetty (Seychelles)
Juneidi Tilmo (Ethiopia)
Kwesi Nyantakyi (Ghana)
Salemane Phafane (Lesotho)
Ahmad Ahmad (Madagascar)
Walter Nyamilandu (Malawi)
Mohamed Ally Samir Sobha (Mauritius)
Fouzi Lekjaa (Morocco)
Alberto Junior (Mozambique)
Frans Mbidi (Namibia)
Melvin Amaju Pinnick (Nigeria)
Isha Johansen (Sierra Leone)
Sita Sangare (Burkina Faso)
Danny Jordaan (South Africa)
Adam Mthethwa (Swaziland)
Musa Bility (Liberia)
Wadie Jary (Tunisia)
Moses Magogo (Uganda)
Andrew Kamanga (Zambia)
Phillip Chiyangwa (Zimbabwe)
Ahmed Yahya (Mauritania)
Nicholas Mwendwa Kithuku
Artur de Almeida (Angola)
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