Amaju Pinnick steps down as CAF first vice president - report

Amaju Pinnick, president of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), has stepped down as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) vice president, according to local media reports.

The decision was taken at the CAF Executive Committee meeting in Cairo, on the eve of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals.

The NFF President Amaju Pinnick was named Vice President of the CAF July last year where he replaced Kwesi Nyantakyi, the former President of the Ghana Football Association, who resigned a month earlier in the wake of corruption allegations sparked by an undercover investigation in his homeland. With the appointment, Pinnick became the first Nigerian to hold the second-highest executive position at the continental body.