LAGOS – The Chairman of Enugu State Football Association, Offor Okenwa has hailed the re-election of Sepp Blatter as the FIFA President for a fifth consecutive term.
The election Congress was held on Friday in Zurich, the home of FIFA.
Okenwa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday from his Enugu base that Blatters’s victory was expected, particularly from the African perspective.
He said the African Football Confederation (CAF) had pledged all its 54 block votes to the 79-year-old, who he noted, had done so much to lift African football.
According to him, Blatter accomplished a lot with massive infrastructure development, through the FIFA-Goal Projects in many countries in the continent.
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“He (Blatter) also supported this with many development projects in the form of like training, award of hosting rights and funding. This cannot be easily paralleled yet,’’ Okenwa added.
“It is only fair that Africans, just like many other third world countries, where he also impacted positively, pay back to a man that has done well to lift the `beautiful game’ in their domain’’.
However, Dele Ologbese, Vice-Chairman, Ondo State Football Association (FA) criticised the re-election.
Ologbese told NAN in Akure that the election should have been postponed over the raging corruption scandal engulfing the World Soccer governing body.
“Even if he did not resign in response to calsl from some quarters, one could have expected the election to be postponed’’.
NAN reports that even though Blatter stopped short of getting the two thirds majority votes, the eventual withdrawal of his opponent, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, ensured that he was back as president before the conclusion of the second majority vote. (NAN)
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