Amaju Pinnick, Executive Chairman, Delta State Sports Commission, has
been elected as new Nigeria Football Association president.
Pinnick
replaces embattled Aminu Maigari’s after an election at the Golden Tulip
hotel in Warri, Delta state.
Pinnick defeated won the election by
32 votes after it went into a re-run. In the first round of the
election, Pinnick polled 25 votes 11 more than his closest rival, Taiwo
Ogunjobi but could not be named winner because he did not get the
mandatory two-third of the votes which is 29 votes.
Then the
election went to re-run which he won by a large margin. Pinnick garnered
32 of the 44 votes is set to succeed Maigari. Dominic Iorfa polled
eight votes, four better than Ogunjobi
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