Zifa aspiring member challenges elections legality

OUTSPOKEN sports journalist, blogger end fervent Zifa critic, Morehope Chizuzu, has written to the national football governing body, challenging the legality of the association’s electoral committee calling for the lower leagues’ upcoming elections.

At the same time, Chizuzu last week successfully filed his nomination papers for a position in the Zifa Northern Region board.

In a letter to Zifa chief executive officer Yvonne Mapika Manwa on Monday, Chizuzu said the Zifa electoral committee had no legal basis to come up with a road map for the elections and said in his correspondence: “The electoral committee, who are ordinarily a legal creation of the FA, should adhere to their role as stipulated in the electoral code, which governs its conduct.

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