In Burkina Faso, the election of the next president of the football federation is scheduled for August 31, but tensions are already arising around the process. Two candidates are provisionally in the running: retired Colonel Major Oumarou Sawadogo, and former international Jonathan Pitroipa. A third candidacy was invalidated, that of Ali Guissou, a customs colonel, who is also president of the AS Douanes club.
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The rejection of Ali Guissou’s candidacy is not to the taste of his supporters who denounce pressure to leave the field clear for Colonel Major Oumarou Sawadogo, considered the army’s candidate. The list led by Mr. Guissou Ali was declared inadmissible because it was incomplete. A candidate from this list came, by correspondence, to confirm the withdrawal of his candidacy,” explained Issac Domba, rapporteur of the electoral commission.
However, this list had been received and registered by the same commission. Customs officer Ali Guissou claims that ” nothing is lost » and promises a « legal battle ” because, according to him, it is a provisional list.
Since this statement, several supporters of the president of the AS Douanes football section say they are suffering ” pressure and harassment ” Several of them were even kidnapped, according to the national coordinator of Ali Guissou’s candidacy. They are Bourama Sawadogo, responsible for the organization of AS Douane, Jean-Paul Monè, member of the executive office of the Leopards of Saint-Camille and Hassan Yanogo, known as Alex Ferguson, a close collaborator of Ali Guissou.
In a statement, the Sens movement described these kidnappings as “methods retrograde and unworthy “He urges football stakeholders to unite to block all forms of ” of harmful interferences » to the independence of the Burkinabe football federation.
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