Leopards’ fans to wait much longer for club elections
AFC Leopards Electoral Board has announced that the club’s eagerly awaited national elections have been rescheduled by “a couple of weeks”.
The announcement however drew mixed reactions from the club’s supporters and branch officials, who accused the club’s current interim officials and Sports Tribunal of dillydallying on this process.
The club’s Electoral Board Secretary General Irene Tindi had last week announced that the exercise which had delayed for six months, will be held in Nairobi On July 3.
She however revised her stance last week, while attributing the delay to the unavailability of the membership register.
“We are yet to receive the voter register which is very crucial to this (elections) exercise. It is also mandatory to verify this register and put together the modality of how to manage the process,” Tindi said.
POOR PERFORMANCE
Club fans on their part are claiming the uncertainty in leadership was the cause of the team’s poor performance during the first leg of the current Kenyan Premier League season.
“We are concerned with this deliberate effort by some club officials and members of the Sports Tribunal to treat this sensitive issue in a casual manner. The current officials of the club are not even elected and their temporary mandate (of 120 days) handed to them last December has lapsed. We are demanding for elections on July 3,” Ronald Namai, who is the fans’ coordinator declared.
The club is currently led by co-chairmen Matthews Opwora and Dan Mule who took the helm on an interim basis last December, following the abrupt resignation of former chairman Allan Kasavuli in May last year.
Leopards have only won five of the 15 league matches this season, and are currently placed 11th on the 16-team, seven points above the relegation zone.
