The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has elected Lamin Kabba Bajo of Gambia as the new President of the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone A.
The 57-year-old takes over from Antonio Souare of Guinea after he was elected unopposed during the meeting in the Tanzanian city where CAF is holding its 44th Ordinary General Assembly.
Bajo is the current President of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) and will serve a two-year term in office of the nine-member regional body.
He becomes the first Gambian to be elected WAFU A President and has vowed to work with his colleagues in the region to continue to improve the game.
“Our zone is among the strongest on the continent but we will not rest on our laurels as they will continue to work hard to continue to improve,” President Bajo told Cafonline.com.
“As you know the African champions Senegal are from our zone and there are other similar success stories but we want to continue to improve.
“I will be working with my colleague FA Presidents to continue to organize more competitions and capacity building programmes to achieve the targets we have set.”
WAFU was founded in 1975 but was split into two zones in 2011.
