{"id":22650,"date":"2025-03-12T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22650"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:52:01","slug":"amaju-pinnick-loses-fifa-council-seat-by-a-single-vote-in-high-stakes-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22650","title":{"rendered":"Amaju Pinnick Loses FIFA Council Seat by a Single Vote in High-Stakes Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Former Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick, has lost his bid to retain his seat in the FIFA Council after falling short by just one vote in the elections held at the 14th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Pinnick, who had served on the FIFA Council since 2021, was narrowly edged out as Souleiman Hassan Waberi of Djibouti secured the final spot with 29 votes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The election saw Fouzi Lekjaa (49 votes), Hani Abou Rida (35 votes), Djibrilla Hima Hamidou (35 votes), and Ahmed Yahya (29 votes) claim the available seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Other unsuccessful candidates included Andrew Kamanga (19 votes), Yacine Diallo (18 votes), and Augustin Senghor (13 votes), while Mathurin de Chacus withdrew from the race. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In the women\u2019s category, Kanizat Ibrahim won with 30 votes, while Lydia Nsekera (13 votes) and Isha Johansen (7 votes) fell short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">With Africa allotted seven seats on the FIFA Council\u2014including one reserved for the CAF president\u2014Pinnick\u2019s exit marks a shift in the continent\u2019s football leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick, has lost his bid to retain his seat in the FIFA Council after falling short by just one vote in the elections held at the 14th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1126,10296,18,826,10297],"class_list":["post-22650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amaju-pinnick","tag-council-seat","tag-election","tag-fifa","tag-single-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22652,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions\/22652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}