Africa-Press – Tanzania. WALLACE Karia, Evans Mgeusa and Hawa Mniga have been endorsed to vie for the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) presidential post.
The Federation’s Electoral Committee had chopped the names of famous sport analyst Ally Mayay, former Malindi legislator Ally Saleh and Radio presenter Oscar Oscar.
The list of successful candidates was unveiled yesterday in Dar es Salaam by the TFF’s Electoral Committee, Vice Chairman, Benjamin Kalume, who noted that among reasons that disqualified most of the candidates, was failure to get endorsement from relevant organs and uncertified copies of their certificates.
“We have gone through all the candidates’ nomination forms and today (yesterday), we are announcing the names of nominees who have been cleared the preliminary screening, after meeting the criteria set, in accordance with the TFF electoral regulation,” he said.
According to the committee, some candidates failed to fill their nomination forms properly according to instructions.
“Some have been disqualified because they did not obtain any or had inadequate endorsement a required. Few others missed certified copies of academic certificates or their national identity cards were not certified by the commissioner of oath in accordance with regulation 10 (3), 10 (4) and 10 (5) of the TFF election,” said Kalume.
Kalume further explained that Mayay was eliminated from the race of the TFF’s top position due to failure to fulfill some of the required details.
He said Saleh and Oscar were also axed from the race for not submitting any endorsement which is among the basic requirement of getting qualification for being a candidate of the TFF top post.
In the Executive Committee members’category, candidates who have qualified to the next stage are Lameck Nyambaya, Athuman Kingome Kambi and Hosseah Lugano (for regional zone 1 – Dar es Salaam, Lindi, Morogoro, Mtwara and Coast).
Other candidates include Khalid Abdallah Mohammed and Zakayo Mjema (for regional zone 2 – Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Manyara and Tanga); Abousufian Silla, James Mhagama and Mohamed Mshango for regional zone 3 (Iringa, Mbeya, Njombe, Ruvuma and Songwe).
For regional zone 4, candidates are; Mohamed Aden and Osuri Kosuri (the zone comprises Dodoma, Shinyanga, Simiyu and Singida).
In regional zone 5 (Geita, Kagera, Mara and Mwanza) candidates are Salum Umande Chama, Vedastus Lufano and Salum Alli Kulunge.
In regional zone 6 (Katavi, Kigoma, Rukwa and Tabora) candidates are Blassy Kiondo, Issa Mrisho Bukuku and Kenneth Pesambili.
The highly-awaited TFF General Election will be held on August 7th, this year in Tanga Region.
The Chairman of TFF Election Committee, Kiomoni Kibamba confirmed the date in a statement issued to the media earlier this month, opening doors for interested candidates to get out of the blocks.
He noted that the posts that will be contested for during the election are TFF president and six members of the Executive Committee. The nomination forms were issued from June 8th until June 12th this year.
Meanwhile, the Zanzibar Football Federation (ZFF) Election Committee has announced the names of candidate, who have been approved to vie for the top seat in the election schedule June 27th this year.
According to the statement unveiled recently by the Electoral Committee Chairman, Fadhil Ramadhan Mberwa all candidates who picked forms to vie for the presidential post have been endorsed.
Mberwa named the endorsed candidates as Abdul-latif Ali Yassin, Abdul-Kadir Mohamed Abdul-kadir ‘Tashi’, Haji Shehe Hamad, Suleiman Shaaban Suleiman and Suleiman Mahmoud Jabir.
