United against blatter

NAIROBI - Farah Addo, who is vice president of the African Football Confederation (CAF), said on Monday that Africa and Europe would unite to remove Sepp Blatter from world soccer governing body FIFA's presidency."Almost all African federations will vote for Issa Hayatou. The majority of European federations who know the ABC of things going on...in FIFA will support Hayatou," Addo told Reuters in an interview in Nairobi."They will all vote for a clean, transparent, honest and qualified person for the FIFA presidency and that man is Issa Hayatou," Addo, who is also president of Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), said.Addo is spearheading the campaign for the 55-year-old Cameroonian, who is also the president of CAF. Addo said he alleged an attempt to buy his vote for $100,000 four years ago last month because the CAF general assembly vetoed his plan to reveal it and because Blatter promised to rule the world's soccer governing body only for one four-year term."Nine months after those things happened in Paris, I wrote to my confederation to inform them I wanted to go public about what happened in Paris but the general assembly vetoed me, saying time was not ripe for those revelations," Addo said. "But I couldn't keep quiet when Blatter announced that he was going for a second four-year term. I can't allow that to happen," he said."When he said he would go for one term, I said whatever was bought was bought. He'll go away after four years," he said."I am determined not to allow these things to happen again."ends