Ahmad was accused by an online media of bidding and winning a N200 million contract from the agency for a company, En Consultancy & Projects Limited, in which he has an interest as Director.
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Ahmad was handed a five-year ban from all football-related activities after being found guilty of misusing CAF’s finances for his own benefit.
The decision to re-admit Ahmad as a candidate comes after his five-year ban from football by Fifa was temporarily suspended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on January 29.
In addition to the sanction, the Madagascan administrator was punished with a fine of 200,000 Swiss Franc.
This comes two days after Ahmad left hospital following his admission for Coronavirus Disease.
Ahmad, who tested positive to Covid-19 on October 30, went into isolation and observation at the AS Salam International Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, and doctors authorized him to leave Wednesday morning.
On Wednesday, the Fifa vice-president from Madagascar announced his intention to go for a second term in office when Caf elections take place next March.
Hasan Bility, who is from Liberia and a CAF executive committee member for last two years, said he will ask the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport to declare invalid the agreement by which FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura will be sent on a secondment to overhaul the African governing body.
Pinnick, who has served in the position since July 2018, has now been replaced by South Africa’s Danny Jordaan
The finals of Africa’s two international club competitions will each be played in one single match in future rather than over two legs as at present, an official said on Wednesday.
It is the first meeting of CAF’s 54-member associations since allegations of fraud and sexual harassment were levelled against CAF president Ahmad Ahmad in April.
Separately, an investigation by the BBC can reveal that Mr Ahmad received two sets of expenses, claiming to be in two different countries, for the same nine-day period during the 2018 World Cup.
The Egyptians did not disappoint with a well choreographed and technological propelled opening ceremony on Friday night.
A drastic and dramatic overhaul of African football is expected to be announced on Thursday, the eve of the kickoff of the African Cup of Nations, in the wake of corruption scandals consuming the Confederation of African Football.
According to the Prosecutor, Xavier Tarabeux, from the French city of Marseille, the Vice President of FIFA “was questioned as part of a probe into corruption, breach of trust and forgery”
CAF President Ahmad Ahmad have been reportedly put under house arrest in France over financial crime allegations.
World football-governing body, FIFA, has denied knowledge of the reasons for the arrest of the President of the Confederation of African Football, Ahmad Ahmad, in Paris, France.
The person said the African Football Confederation president was detained for questioning on Thursday morning in the French capital
The President of the Confederation of African Football, Ahmad Ahmad, has been accused of multiple charges of sexual harassment from both CAF staffers and consultants brought in to work on the continental football body’s events.
African football’s ruling body, Confederation of African Football, has fired a senior official after he made corruption accusations against the organisation’s President, Ahmad Ahmad.