Magogo set for four-year renewal

KAMPALA. Fufa president Moses Magogo is set to be endorsed by the 88-member General Assembly for another four-year mandate as the head of Ugandan football.
Magogo, who rose to the helm in 2013, is the sole candidate as the federation hold their 93rd ordinary assembly, with this one intended to elect a president and executive members.
The meeting is scheduled for Kabalega Resort Hotel in the western Uganda district of Masindi after beating several court injunctions sought by opponents to stop it.

Numbers game
At least 45 delegates must endorse him.
Members are drawn from the eight Fufa regions, Azam Uganda Premier League, Fufa Big League, women’s elite league, women’s football, referees, beach soccer, players, coaches and schools.
His four-year term has been illuminated by Uganda’s maiden qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations in 39 years and improving the corporate structure of the body.
The 43-year old often cites building human resource, relatively stable leagues, a functional website and radio, and building relationship at Fifa and Caf as his trump cards.
Tanzania’s Leodegar Tenga and Djiboutian Suleiman Hassan Waberi will represent the two bodies respectively.
However, it’s been a bumpy road to get here especially after the Fufa Electoral Committee disqualified Mujib Kasule from running against Magogo.

Stringent requirements
Kasule didn’t acquire the stringent requirements as set in the electoral code passed five years ago which precipitated the Proline director seeking an interim injunction.
In addition, Magogo’s naysayers will point to the fact that the Fufa president is facing a Fifa investigation in regard to the sale of 2014 World Cup tickets allocated to Uganda.
Accountability has often come up as something they fall short. Uganda Cranes’ coach Micho Sredojevic’s termination of his contract last Saturday over unpaid wages left Fufa nearly naked.