Aliro joins race

Nov 15, 2001

SC VILLA manager Kevin Ogen Aliro, who had been ear-marked for the secretary’s job after several strategic meetings with the Re-elect Dennis Obua camp, has decided to go it alone.

By Daniel Saire SC VILLA manager Kevin Ogen Aliro, who had been ear-marked for the secretary’s job after several strategic meetings with the Re-elect Dennis Obua camp, has decided to go it alone. Aliro made a surprise entry into the FUFA presidential race when he picked nomination forms yesterday. He denied that his entry into the race was a ploy to disorganise the opposition. Obua recently named Aliro vice chairman of his campaign team. He has attended many of Obua’s campaign meetings at the Lugogo police club but denied that he had betrayed him. “I stand by some principles, and I know that some things have not been going on well for the last three years but Obua is not the problem,” he said. Aliro blamed former FUFA leaders John Semanobe and Kakaire for helping to bring Obua into the limelight. “Obua is a symptom of their mistakes and it is not good to heap all blame on him since most of the current problems were created before he took over,” Aliro said he was suited for the FUFA top job by virtue of running Villa, the most successful club in the country. He was of the view that football is a big time venture that needs people with business acumen but not merely former players. The number of aspirants rose to six after Michael Okiror, Hajji Twaha Kakaire, Joseph Kaggwa and the incumbent Obua also picked the forms. Returning officer David Agong has set 5.00pm on Saturday as the deadline for the forms to be returned. One of the candidates, Okiror said he was perplexed by Aliro’s move. “You need to have made a lot of friends, to get their vote. You don’t just come from nowhere — but let him come and feel the vote acid,” said Okiror, who quit the Obua executive after just a year in office. ends

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