FUFA aspirants to discover fate

Jul 03, 2013

LOCAL soccer governing body FUFA is expected to announce the successful candidates from its presidential nomination process on Thursday

By James Bakama

LOCAL soccer governing body FUFA is expected to announce the successful candidates from its presidential nomination process on Thursday.

FUFA’s electoral commission had earlier expected to make the announcement on Friday. But Commission chairman Patrick Okanya said they had since fast tracked the process and would make the announcement a day earlier.

Outgoing FUFA vice president Moses Magogo, Kampala Member of Parliament Muhammad Nsereko and Internal Security Deputy Director Taban Amin passed the preliminary stage of the nomination process.

Okanya and his team will start off the day by meeting FUFA CEO Edgar Watson at 9am. “We expect Watson to tell us which of the three aspirants meets the football requirements,” explained Okanya.

Article 9 (8) of FUFA’s electoral code stipulates that for anyone to be eligible for the candidature of FUFA president, he must have served as an executive member of a major football body.

The administrative levels under consideration here are CECAFA, CAF, FIFA, FUFA or as a FIFA instructor or chairman of a member of FUFA. The other requirements are that one should have O-Levels, be Ugandan and also be below 70 years.

“After meeting Watson we should be in position to know who has the necessary football requirements so, we shall then individually inform the aspirants whether they are fit to proceed in the electoral process.”

Okanya meets Nsereko at 11am, then Magogo at 11.30 before winding up these sessions with a meeting with Amin at mid-day. The sequence of the meetings follows the order of submission of the nomination forms last Thursday.

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