Duro Ikhazuagbe
9 July 2009
Abuja — Nigeria's Habul Gumel has returned as treasurer of the Association of National Olympic Committee of Africa (ANOCA). He polled 37 votes to defeat Mamadou Talata Doula of Niger Republic. Both candidates are from the same Zone Three region. In the same elections, incumbent president, Lassana Palenfo of Cote d' Ivoire, had an easy run to retain the driver's seat of the body for the next four years when he defeated his challenger, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum of Cameroon.
Palenfo polled 35 votes to beat the African athletics (CAA) president who won just 15. For the first vice-president position, Algerian Mustapha Berraf beat Mousa Mahamat Aggrey of Tchad by 28-21. There was no contest for the position of second vice-president, as Joao Manuel da Costa Allergre of Sao Tome and Principe got returned unopposed.
Ghana's Benson Tongo Baba got a one-vote margin of 25-24 to return as 3rd Vice-president.
In other sections of the elections, Angola's Teresa Filomena Fragoso da Costa scored a 26-25 marginal victory over Dagmawit Girmay of Ethiopia to become the 4th Vice-president while Beatrice Allen of the Gambia returned unopposed as deputy president.
Egyptian Khaled Zein El Din got a massive 34 votes to beat Robert Mutsuki of Zimbabwe to become the new Secretary-general of the Africa Olympic movement.
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