Engineer Moses Magogo is set to serve a fresh four year term as the president of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA).
Magogo will extend his term to eight years following the elective Fufa General Assembly to be held on August 5 in Masindi after he was nominated successfully.
Candidate Mujib Kasule did not satisfy the conditions set despite picking the nomination forms last Wednesday making him ineligible to contest for the FUFA Presidency.
According to FUFA, the Proline football director was disqualified after he failed to fulfill the mandatory requirements that were requested on Friday June 16.
He was then given another two days until Monday, June 19 and still failed to comply with the mandatory requirements stipulated in the FUFA Statutes, FUFA Electoral Code and FUFA Electoral Guidelines for candidature of the FUFA President and FUFA Executive Committee.
Mujib served as the Vice President during former president Lawrence Mulindwa’s regime.
However, by press time it was not possible to establish whether Mujib Kasule would contest the outcome in court.
It is said Mr. Kasule Mujib failed to comply with the following articles of the FUFA Electoral Code 2012:
Article 10 (5) Nominations of candidates shall be made by both the Chairman and Secretary of fully subscribed members. Where members are individuals, nominations will be done by fully subscribed members; and
Article 10 (6) Subject to the fulfillment of the eligibility prerequisites, a candidate to the office of the FUFA President shall only be valid if supported by any three members of FUFA where one such member is from the FUFA Super League Clubs or FUFA Big League, the other member being from Special interest groups as defined in article 10 (1) (d-1) of the FUFA Statutes and the other member being a Regional Football Association.
In addition, Mr Mujib Kasule did not also comply with Article 39 (4) of the FUFA Statutes –Only Members of FUFA may propose candidates for the office of President. Members shall notify the general secretariat in writing of the name of a candidate for the presidency of FUFA at least two months before the date General Assembly.
Article 11 (2) of the FUFA Electoral Code 2012 states Candidatures will be registered by the EC, scrutinised by the EC for compliance with this code, the FIFA, CAF, FUFA and/or respective statutes of the organization for whom elections are being conducted and declared eligible for election after payment of the respective fees as stipulated in this code.
