Those who dreamed of seeing Samuel Eto’o being kicked out of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fécafoot) this October 10, 2023 will have to be disillusioned. The man finished the General Assembly of the Center of Excellence of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in his position as president of the body. Already, the point concerning the observation of the vacancy at the head of Fécafoot did not appear in the agenda that the members of the supreme management body of Cameroonian football discovered on site in Mbankomo. Moreover, the Ag was not extraordinary, but had no less than 18 points on the agenda.
On the other hand, Adolphe Nsekepresident of the Eagle of Nkongsamba, Jerome Kome Maxpresident of Dragon de Yaoundé, and Gaspard Owona, president of Renaissance de Ngoumou, are no longer members of the AGM of Fécafoot. The three men, already under provisional suspension from the Executive Committee (Comex) of the body, saw their sanction confirmed today. Samuel Eto’o and his peers at the Comex had justified this decision by “violation of their obligations referred to in article 14 paragraphs (1k) of the Fecafoot statutes “. Shortly before, these men had held a meeting about the future of Fécafoot with Samuel Eto’o. What the strong man of Tsinga did not like. Guibaï Gatama, who had just been rehabilitated as a member of the Comex by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, after having been ejected by his peers, on the recommendation of their leader, saw the same sanction imposed on him. This is because the delegate from the Far North had boycotted the work on September 11 in Garoua, reproaching Fécafoot for having communicated to him in advance the draft agenda as provided for in the texts of the Fécafoot. The man then contacted Fécafoot through a bailiff to notify them of his intention not to travel to Garoua.
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In his opening speech at the Mbankomo AGM, Samuel Eto’o criticized other figures for contesting his policies; notably the signatories of the open letter served on September 25 to Gianni Infantino the president of the International Football Federation Association (Fifa). The General Pierre Semnengue (president of the Cameroon Professional Football League rehabilitated by the CAS), Faustin Domkeu (vice-president of the Lfpc), Henri Njalla Quan (4th vice-president of Fécafoot who resigned), captain Joseph Feutcheu (resigned member of the Comex ), Henri Claude Balla Ongolo (president of the Association of Amateur Football Clubs of Cameroon), Abdouraman Hamadou (president of Etoile filante de Garoua), Pierre Njili Ndengue (former coach of the Indomitable Lions U23) and Guibaï Gatama (resigned member of Comex), had called on the boss of world football to take responsibility by stopping the new president of Fécafoot in his mad race against the texts and actors of Cameroonian football.
Not without scratching General Semengue, who he says has “ rehabilitated ” but who ” was manipulated » by those who oppose the modernization of Cameroonian football. And in fact, neither Pierre Semengue, nor those suspended for the day, Guibaï Gatama and the delegates from the North were not present. An absence that Samuel Eto’o did not appreciate. On the occasion, the boss of Cameroonian football received the support of those present, manifested by scarves worn by all the participants and bearing the message clearly expressed.
