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NFF: Amaju Pinnick’s replacement finally emerges

Amaju Pinnick has been succeeded by Ibrahim Gusau as the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Gusau beat eight other contestants to emerge as the 40th NFF president.

His victory brings to end the eight year reign of Pinnick who got into office in 2014.

In Saturday’s election, only eight of the 11 aspirants were on the final ballot as Musa Amadu, Adam Mukhtar, and Suleiman Yahaya Kwande withdrew from the race. In the first round of the election, Gusau polled 21 votes, Seyi Akinwumi had 12 votes and Shehu Dikko had six votes.

Gusau would have been the outright winner of the election but he did not have the required 50 per cent +1 votes of the total 41 votes cast.

According to the NFF election rules, every candidate that had at least a vote could be a part of the runoff but Shehu Dikko, Seyi Akinwunmi and Abba Yola stepped down while Peterside Idah refused to step down. After the runoff, Gusau polled 39 Votes to Idah’s one to emerge as the new NFF president.

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