Ahmad Ahmad |
CAF President Ahmad Ahmad has stepped down as Vice-President
of the Madagascar Senate.
Ahmad, who is also the Madagascar Football Federation boss,
tendered his resignation on Monday to vacate the office he had occupied since
February 2016.
The 57-year-old former AC Sotema coach was later received
officially by the members of the MFF and Muslim community at the Carlton Hotel
in Antananarivo, where he addressed the gathering.
Ahmad was on Thursday overwhelmingly voted as president of
CAF, garnering 34 to 20 votes, to bring to a humiliating halt Issa Hayatou’s 29-year
rule.
Hayatou was seeking a record eight straight terms in office.
The Cameroonian was first elected to head the largest member of FIFA, the
world’s football governing body, in March 1988.
Ahmad, a two-time government minister, is also expected to
vacate his position as the MFF president, as required by the CAF rules.
This could happen anytime soon with MFF’s first
vice-president Soda Andriamiasasoa expected to take over the reins on an
interim basis pending elections.
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