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Parfait Siki: “Cameroonian football has cancer and his name is Abdouraman Hamadou”

by Theophile
Parfait Nicolas Siki

For the head of communication cell of Fecafoot, the leader of l’Etoile filante de Garoua is the source of the woes of Cameroonian football.

It’s hard to talk about Cameroonian football without referring to Abdouraman Babba Hamadou. However, if the leader of the shooting star club Garoua is perceived as “the vigilante” or “the white horse of Cameroonian football“, Parfait Siki disagrees.

Guest on ABK radio this Wednesday, July 14, 2021, Parfait Siki, the Head of Communication Unit of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) maintains that Abdouraman Hamadou is the source of Cameroonian football’s woes.

Cameroonian football has cancer and his name is Abdouraman Hamadou,” said the former managing editor of Le Quotidien de l’Economie.

The 51-year-old president of l’Etoile filante de Garoua is often criticized for his positions on the conflicts between the authorities in charge of football in Cameroon. This earned him the quality of “controversial character” attributed to him by Jeune Afrique in an article published on February 22, 2021.

Abdouraman Hamadou, the former chief of staff of Iya Mohammed, is championing Cameroonian football. In 2017, the president of l’Etoile filante de Garoua brought down Tombi A Roko Sidiki. He is also at the origin of the complaint which led to the cancellation of the election of the president of Fécafoot.

Abdouraman Babba Hamadou
Abdouraman Babba Hamadou

We remember that on January 15, 2021, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) invalidated, for the third time in eight years, the election of the Fécafoot executive committee headed by Seidou Mbombo Njoya. The decision supported by the entrepreneur for whom the ballot had been the subject of “glaring irregularities” with the counter, the “lack of transparency in the process“, “the illegitimacy of the electoral college” as well as ” non-compliance with the texts ”.

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Entrusted to Jeune Afrique, the sports leader said that “The entire electoral process cannot be controlled by a single person“, referring to “a struggle for the independence of Cameroonian football“.

FIFA had chosen to keep the said executive in office on an interim basis. Based on the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the presidents of the amateur clubs, including Abdouraman Hamadou, held a provisional assembly which led Senator Albert Mbida to the post of president of the Provisional Management Committee of Fecafoot.

The Assembly did not receive the approval of the public authorities, but the various actors who took part were quick to brandish its legal relevance.

Will Abdouraman Hamadou therefore be the hub for ending the crisis in Cameroonian football or should he be extricated from the chain as Parfait Siki proposes?

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