FIFA: Issa Hayatou delegates his role as CAF president to his two vice-presidents

"In agreement with the CAF Executive Committee and in accordance with the relevant provisions of Article 24 of the CAF Statutes, paragraphs 6 and 10, CAF president, Issa Hayatou, on Saturday 16/01/2016, authorised a delegation of powers to Suketu Patel and Almamy Kabele Camara, the 1^st and 2^nd vice-presidents of CAF respectively," announced the African Confederation, on 16/01/2016.

The Cameroonian Issa Hayatou, CAF president since 1988, has held the post of acting president of FIFA since 08/10/2015, the day Joseph Blatter (SUI) was provisionally suspended for 90 days by the FIFA Ethics Committee. Blatter was later suspended for 8 years from any activity related to football on 21/12/2015. Issa Hayatou is expected to hold the post of acting president of FIFA until the election of the Swiss' successor, at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich (SUI), on 26/02/2016.

"Suketu Patel and Almamy Kabele Camara will be in charge of relations between CAF, other confederations, members and candidates for the FIFA presidential elections until the conclusion of the FIFA electoral process. They…