Former Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick, has failed in his bid for re-election into the FIFA Council, the governing body of world football.
Pinnick, who previously held a seat on the council, secured only 28 votes in the election conducted during the 14th CAF Extraordinary General Assembly on Wednesday in Cairo, Egypt.
Unfortunately, this was not enough to earn one of the six available membership positions for Africa on the council.
Elected members are Faouzi Lekjaa of Morocco, Mauritania’s Ahmed Yahya, Kanizat Ibrahim of Comoros, Djibouti’s Souleiman Waberi, Hamidou Djibrilla of Niger and Egypt’s Hani Abo Rida.
Pinnick had just one vote less than Yahya and Waberi who clinched the final two slots.
The FIFA council is the principal decision-making organ of the federation in the intervals of the FIFA Congress.
The council is comprised of 37 members elected by the FIFA Congress for a renewable term of four years.
Pinnick was the third Nigerian elected into the FIFA council after Oyo Orok Oyo and Amos Adamu.
He was elected into the council in March 2021 at the 43rd CAF ordinary general assembly in Rabat, Morocco.
Pinnick was a two-term president of the NFF between 2014 and 2022 and was replaced by Ibrahim Gusau.
Earlier, Patrice Motsepe was re-elected as CAF president for a second term.
