The Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick, has been appointed president of Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, and Media Committees of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, declared at a meeting in Bahrain.
Pinnick’s appointment was made at the ongoing first Executive Committee meeting of the CAF taking place at the Sheraton Hotel in Manama, Bahrain.
This is the maiden meeting since the elective General Assembly of 16 March 2017 where Ahmad Ahmad emerged as the new CAF president and Pinnick was voted into the Federations’ Executive Committee.
Pinnick rose through the ranks in Delta State before taking his current position as the Chairman of the DSFA, where he secured his second term in 2012, unopposed during the elections. He was the Vice Chairman of the DSFA in 2003 and has always remained prominent in the Delta football fraternity ever since.
Partly, his achievements as a football administrator were when he convinced the Delta State government to set up the Sports Commission in 2007 to ensure that sporting activities are given a professional and institutional platform to leverage their activities. It was this commission that discovered the comparative advantage of every section of the state and, for quite some time now, Delta State has regularly emerged as the champions of the National Sports Festival.
Under Pinnick, during the 2012 National Sports Festival hosted by Lagos State, the state were named overall champions of the competition with 114 gold, 99 silver and 75 bronze medals. The state displaced Rivers to second spot with 76 gold, 71 silver and 70 bronze medals while third and fourth placed Lagos and Edo States could only boast of 64 and 25 gold medals in that order.
Ghana Football Association president, Kwesi Nyatakyi, was appointed CAF vice-president while the president of DR Congo Football Association, Constant Omari, was named the second vice-president of CAF.
Danny Jordaan, South Africa Football Association president, is the chairman of marketing and TV committee  and the vice chairman of club licensing committee of AFCON.
Fifteen (15 points) are on the agenda, with the background outlining matters to be implemented in the next four years by the new Executive elected in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and led by CAF President Ahmad.
