{"id":163201,"date":"2015-10-29T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=163201"},"modified":"2015-10-29T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T09:25:36","slug":"fifa-presidential-election-candidates-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=163201","title":{"rendered":"Fifa: Presidential election candidates confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven candidates will stand in Fifa\u2019s presidential election on 26 February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The candidates are: Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne, Gianni Infantino, Michel Platini, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa and Tokyo Sexwale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trinidadian ex-footballer David Nakhid was not included on the list, despite saying he had submitted his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election is to find a successor to the suspended Sepp Blatter, who is under criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Swiss 79-year-old announced he would be stepping down in June, with world football\u2019s governing body at the centre of a corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWho are the Fifa candidates?<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, 39, is president of the Jordan Football Association<\/li>\n<li>Musa Bility, 48, is president of the Liberian Football Association<\/li>\n<li>Jerome Champagne, 57, is a former Fifa executive<\/li>\n<li>Gianni Infantino, 45, is Uefa\u2019s general secretary<\/li>\n<li>Michel Platini, 60, is Uefa president and Fifa vice-president<\/li>\n<li>Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, 49, is Asian Football Confederation president<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Sexwale, 62, is a South African former government minister<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Platini, the head of European football\u2019s governing body, is also suspended, but Fifa\u2019s electoral committee says it may allow him to stand if his ban ends before the election date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifa and Swiss prosecutors are investigating reports that a \u00a31.35m payment was made in 2011 for work Platini did as Blatter\u2019s adviser.<br \/>\nBoth men deny any wrongdoing and are appealing against their 90-day bans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All candidates had to obtain the written backing of five football associations under Fifa electoral rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven candidates will stand in Fifa\u2019s presidential election on 26 February. The candidates are: Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne, Gianni Infantino, Michel Platini, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa and Tokyo Sexwale. Trinidadian ex-footballer David Nakhid was not included on the list, despite saying he had submitted his candidacy. The election is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":163202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-163201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}