Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE fierce battle for the Vice President post heralds the general elections of the Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) in Dodoma today.
The incumbent Henry Tandau will lock horns for the post with Muharami Mchume, who formerly served as the executive committee member of TOC and has been vying for the post for over twelve years now.
According to the assistant secretary of TOC, Suleiman Jabir, the Annual General Meeting and the elections will be supervised by the TOC President, Gulam Rashid. There are 21 candidates vying for the posts in TOC.
They are Gulam Rashid (presidency), Tandau and Mchume (Vice presidency), Filbert Bayi (Secretary General), Suleiman Mahmoud Jabir (Assistant secretary general), Charles Nyange (treasurer), Juma Khamis Zaidy (Assistant treasurer), Noorelain Shariff, Irene Mwasanga, Amina Lyamaiga, Donath Massawe na Suma Mwaitenda (Committe members).
Others seeking committee’s membership are Devotha Marwa, Suleiman Nyambui, Nassra Juma Mohamed, Ramadhan Zimbwe Omary, Mussa Abdulrabi Fadhil, Suleiman Ame Khamis and Makame Ali Machano.
TOC secretary-general Filbert Bayi said yesterday all arrangements for the elections have been finalized. TOC holds elections every four years, involving members from the mainland as well as the island of Zanzibar.
Bayi also mentioned that there will only be 13 members elected to the Executive Committee, down from the previous 20 members.
This reduction has been made in a bid to increase efficiency and promote democracy within the Executive Committee.
The posts to be contested are vice-president, secretary-general, assistant secretary-general, treasurer and assistant treasurer.
“The campaign shall start after aspirants being endorsed to contest and end up a day in the evening before the elections,” said lawyer Lloyd Nchunga, who will supervise the elections.
“Other members of the Electoral Committee to supervise the elections include a lawyer from Zanzibar, Abdallah Mohammed and Harrison Chaulo.”
Nchunga said the screening process for the candidates is scheduled to take place on November 27 and 29. Officials from Olympic sports associations are eligible voters in the elections.
TOC’s elections will run parallel with the elections of the Tanzania Olympians Association (TOA), with TOC’s Executive Committee supervising them.
