Breaking: Ahmad Ahmad defeats Hayatou as CAF President

Issa Hayaou and Ahmad ahmad

CAF President Issa Hayatou was defeated today by Ahmad Ahmad After 29 years in power.

Hayatou was defeated by Madagascar’s Ahmad who is a relative unknown to many.

70-year-old Issa Hayatou has lost the Confederation of African Football (CAF) presidency to Madagascar Football Association head Ahmad Ahmad on Thursday at the 39th CAF Ordinary General Assembly in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa.

Ahmad won 34 of the 54 votes in the election to end Hayatou’s 29-year rule which started since 1988.

Ahmad will become the CAF’s seventh president since the continental body’s 60 years of existence.

The result means Hayatou will have to renege his FIFA position.