Seidou Nchouwat Mbombo Njoya has been elected as the new President of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot).
The one-time vice president of Fecafoot was voted Wednesday during an extraordinary general assembly at the Caf Centre of Excellence in Mbankomo in the outskirts of Yaoundé.
Seidou Njoya polled 46 votes ahead of his close rival Joseph Antoine Bell with 17 of the 66 total votes cast by delegates.
Mongue Nyamsi came third with three votes while Hervé Tchinda and Manouang Kessack scored zero votes.
Before the election, Franck Happi had pulled out in favour of Joseph Antoine Bell but was not enough as Seidou Njoya still emerged winner.
Seidou Njoya, a Bamoun prince is the former director of the Fifa’s Central African sub regional office and former chief of protocol of former Caf President Issa Hayatou.
He was equally former vice President of the Cameroon Football Federation under Iya Mohammed as well as head of the international football commission at Fecafoot.
He alongside the new Fecafoot bureau that will be elected today will be sworn in in four days’ time, marking the end of the mandate of the Normalization Committee.
