Keshi, others to vote African king

Super Eagles’ gaffer, Stephen Keshi, and other African national team coaches have been done the honour to vote the 2013 Glo-CAF Africa Footballer of the year.
National team captains of African are also assigned this duty.
The sponsor, telecommunication giants, Globacom, and CAF stated this at a joint press conference held in Lagos on Monday. Globacom was represented at the occasion by its National Sales Coordinator, Segun Adeyemo, while the Director of Media Division, Confederation of African Football, Junior Binyam, spoke on behalf of CAF.‎
According to Globacom: “The 2013 Glo-CAF Awards with the theme: Icons of Africa: Past, Present, Future, is aimed at honouring the legacy of the past; celebrating the icons of today; and inspiring the Icons of the future.”
Both Glo and CAF said attention has been paid to even the minutest of details to ensure the emergence of a credible winner through a very transparent process.
They also pledged that the presentation ceremony, to be held at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos State, will be unprecedented in scale.‎
Coming on the heels of the release of the list of Top 25 African Best Players by CAF, Binyam stated that coaches and captains of African national football teams will vote for the Best Player on the continent and the list will be pruned from 25 to the Top 10, Top Five and Top Three in subsequent weeks.
He said one of the Top Three will be unveiled as the winner during the awards night.
“The countdown to the Awards night has started,” he said.
Binyam commended Globacom for sponsoring the Glo-CAF Awards since 2005, adding that the partnership is worth celebrating.
He called on African companies to support African football at both local and international levels, adding that the continent stands to gain tremendously from such support.
Adeyemo said the company’s partnership with CAF, which is in its 8th year, is in “line with its vision of raising the profile of African football and the continent’s players, just as the Glo network is dedicated to adding value to the lives of the people in the countries where the company has its footprints.
“The Glo-CAF Award is instituted as an annual event to ‎ bestow honour on individuals within the fraternity of football in Africa who distinguished themselves by putting up outstanding performances in their core areas of strength within the year under review. They include players, managers, administrators and football supporters.”
Globacom also said that its customers will enjoy the special privilege of attending the 2013 Awards to meet and interact with top African footballers and administrators during the gala night.
To gain access to the event, all the customer needs to do is to participate in the ongoing SMS promo tagged: “Top up and secure a seat at the Glo CAF Awards Ceremony”.
Subscribers who spend N10,000 or more between now and January 2, 2014 to make calls or browse the internet on the Glo network stand a chance to win special tickets to the awards.
Five Nigerian players made the list of Top 25 contenders for the Best African Player of the Year.
They are John Mikel Obi of Chelsea Football Club, London; Vincent Enyeama of Lille, France,; Emmanuel Emenike of Fenerbahce, Turkey; Ahmed Musa of CSKA, Moscow; and Sunday Mba of Warri Wolves, Nigeria.