As we have a second #Qatar2022#FIFAWorldCup rest day, before the start of the QFs, it's a good time to provide a bit more details on the @CAF_Online#AfricaSuperLeague saga and what some CAF exco members thought about the plan, when it was presented to them...
What I am reporting is based entirely on an eye-witness account of a @CAF_Online executive committee member, who was in the room, when the #AfricaSuperLeague presentation was made…
This is Maclean Letshwiti - @OfficialML_BFA - President of the Botswana FA - @WeAreBFA, a @CAF_Online exco member. After the #AfricaSuperLeague presentation, he had questions as to how the annual $250m income will be raised. He was reportedly not satisfied with the answers given.
And even @FTF_OFFICIELLE President, Wadii Jari, who is regarded as being loyal to the current @CAF_Online leadership, expressed the same concerns, at the said CAF exco presentation.
"We have been told that there are so many sponsors for the #AfricaSuperLeague. But I have not seen ONE of them. We have NOT been given details about ANY of them. They really need to show us the money," the @CAF_Online exco member told me.
"It appears that the full @CAF_Online full exco has become an irrelevance, as it was during the time of @AAhmad_CAF as president. Decisions are cooked up in the CAF emergency committee, amongst a few people, and then presented to the full exco as a fait accompli," he alleges.
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An account, from @KeirRadnedge, former @WorldSoccerMag editor & @AIPSmedia football commission chair: “Late in the match at Lusail, colleagues up to the left of me started shouting for medical aid. Journos moved chairs so @GrantWahl could be laid down…
“… A medical team was quickly on hand and must have spent up to half an hour of treatment, including perpetual CPR, before he was placed on a stretcher and carried out… It is very upsetting (this tragedy) particularly for those who were around him.”
My sympathy to @celinegounder, his wife, and the entire Wahl family. He was just too young to go this way. He had so much more to give in life…
Well, after hearing from a @CAF_Online exco member on the deal, I have spoken to a source close to @Lagardere_SE_fr, with knowledge of the settlement and he had some interesting things of his own to say...
"Have you seen the settlement documents? If you have not, don't take the figures that you have been told for granted." He insists that the settlement figures are higher than the $25 million I have been told, even though he refused to give me the exact figure.
"Yes, the settlement was done around the 22nd, 23rd of November and the payment is to be in instalments. But the payment period is not very long and @CAF_Online have already made a lump sum payment," he claimed.
.@akpoborie: “I watched some of the surgeries on Monday. It was really an experience. One young boy got rid of a hernia. It was good to see him him cured. I was really touched by that,” he said.
He goes on: “There are so many people to help. And the sad thing is that as much as the doctors are able to do, we can’t help everyone. We had already closed the case list, when 2 more children came with their mum. We told them the list had closed…
Breaking: A top source in #Guinean football says the country's government will not allow them travel to #Uganda, to play in a @CAF_Online U-23 qualifier there, as a result of the #EbolaOutbreakUG. (Will add more details shortly, to make a thread...)
"We have asked @CAF_Online about the concerns of the health services of our country, for our match in #Uganda. Our government strongly advises us not to go to #Kampala, at the end of the month, for the match. We have unofficially informed CAF of the situation...
"@CAF_Online replied that to date, the @WHO has not made a decision on #Uganda (concerning safety of travel there) and that its matches will be played. How this will be resolved I don't know, because our government is not joking on this matter," the top source said.
.@MySoccerAfrica pundit @IdahPeterside, who is contesting for @thenff presidency, has described Friday’s Benin City congress venue as a “vast crime scene”, where the votes of congress members are being bought, by his rivals, for thousands of US Dollars.
.@IdahPeterside: "The @officialEFCC must be here, the police must be here, to arrest some people. Economic crimes are happening here. People are carrying bags, full of dollars, in front of you and distributing it, with no shame..."
"When we went round in the night, to convince delegates to vote for me, they will tell that this delegate gave them $10,000... and this one is bringing $15,000 (to be voted as NFF President). Even those contesting for the board are doing similar things."
LEGAL NOTE: The claim @thenff can organise Friday's elections, because the Federal High Court injunction has been revoked, is dubious. NO ORDER, by any Appeal Court Judge, revoking the injunction, has been produced. ONLY a "Notice of Appeal" was filed on Wednesday.
I have read the legal documents being circulated, as evidence of the revocation. As said, a "Notice of Appeal" and a request for a "Stay of Execution" was filed in the Federal High Court in Abuja, on 28th September. No Judge has heard this appeal or given any ruling.
Without the EXPRESS order of a Judge, of a court of superior jurisdiction to the Federal High Court, the injunction of the Federal High Court stands. And anyone that disobeys it in Benin, on Friday, will be in contempt of court and at risk of imprisonment.