The Ivorian Football Federation (FIF) has invalidated and cancelled the candidacy of former national and Chelsea FC striker, Didier Drogba, who had been in the running for the Federation’s Presidency.

Source; https://africaatrandom.com/breaking-didier-drogbas-fa-presidency-bid-thrown-out/

The former footballer’s candidacy had been validated at first, despite some issues that were raised with his application. This then led to the suspension of the elections and FIF’s Electoral Committee.

Global football governing body, FIFA, however decided to reinstate the Committee and the elections, with the electoral body opting to invalidate Drogba’s candidacy so that things could move along.

There had been some doubts as to whether or not Drogba’s application was going be accepted; this was due to certina concerns raised about his ability to meet the electoral requirements.

A few months ago, the Ivory Coast Footballers Association (AFI), which is one of the five main interest groups in Ivorian football had refused to endorse Drogba’s candidacy, drawing a suspension from FIFPro.

However, the former Ivorian national team captain’s application was controversially accepted after he got the endorsements of three Ivorian Ligue 1 clubs, two Ligue 2 clubs, two Championnat Division 3 clubs and an interest group, the dissident referees.

Didier Drogba’s sponsorship from the dissident referees was deemed inadmissible by FIF, hence the invalidation of Drogba’s candidacy.

The elections have now been scheduled for the 5th of September with Sory Diabaté and Idriss Diallo as the only two eligible candidates running for the Federation’s Presidency.

A statement signed by FIF’s outgoing president, Sidy Diallo, had earlier announced the suspension of the election in totality based on what he believed to be a misnomer by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) which is responsible for validating the applications. he statement indicated that the CEI had “violated the electoral code ”

The statement also added that “the electoral process no longer inspires confidence and that the neutrality of certain members of the electoral body was in doubt.”

Africans are not ready.

Try and meet up with the electoral requirements next time

too bad

This guy was just a "Messi" for ivory coast. all his exploits with Chelsea he couldn't do same in a Cote d'Ivoire shirt.