CAIRO: African football supremo Ahmad has hit back at fierce criticism from Liberia’s Musa Bility writes KEIR RADNEDGE.

Earlier this month, Bility quits two positions within the African Football Confederation because he had no confidence in the leadership of Madagascar’s Ahmad who was “leading this noble organisation in the wrong direction.”

Ahmad responded at the weekend on the eve of the Under-20 African Nations Cup final in Niger, saying: “We have 23 executive committee members but there are only one or two members of the 23 that you hear. You have never heard others. There are rules in an organisation.”

Bility had claimed that Ahmad had reduced the number of meetings and taken major decisions on rights and hostings either on his own or through commercial influence.

Ahmad said: “Since my arrival at the head of the CAF, the statutes oblige me to organise a minimum of two exco meetings a year but we make several.

“When at the Emergency Committee meeting, every two months almost, we make it. There are debates in the Emergency Committee. I do not make a cleavage in management.
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“It is only the president who statutorily represents CAF with third parties. No other has this mandate. I do not have anything to him (Bility) to answer. The bottom line is that I evolve with my administration.

The CAF that I want to put in place is that of a big family of African football. I hope we are in this way.”

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