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AFC Leopards chairman Dan Shikanda has maintained elections will go on next month as planned despite Sports Registrar’s directive that polls should be held in June 2026.
AFC Leopards chairman Dan Shikanda has disagreed with Sports Registrar Rose Wasike over her directive that the club should hold elections in June 2026 and not next month.
Leopards have been preparing for the elections slated for June 29 but Wasike put a spanner in the works on Tuesday when she directed the club to put on hold the exercise until June 2026 because according to her, the current office has not completed its term.
As per Wasike, the Leopards officials, just like all sports entities in Kenya, are supposed to be in office for four years as stipulated in the Sports Act and therefore, the Shikanda-led team has not completed its term by law until June 2026.
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However, Shikanda insists that is not the position as his team came into office through the Leopards constitution which stipulates a three-year term and thus, their time ends in June 2025.
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The outgoing Leopards chairman is therefore reading a sinister motive in the Registrar’s directive as he feels it could be a trap being set for him.
“They want to claim my term has not ended, then come and say I am at FKF which is a conflict of interest and then stage-manage elections. I want to finish elections now,” Shikanda, who is also an FKF NEC member, told Pulse Sports on Wednesday.
“We will have credible elections and I will make sure I hand over the club to the next person.”
Shikanda says the club has already prepared itself to align with the Sports Act following the constitutional amendment done at the 2024 AGM with the four-year term set to kick in under the incoming team.
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“The club’s constitution is clear: we are supposed to be there for three years. We are transiting to the Sports Act after this election and it is very clear in our constitution and even the covering letter,” Shikanda further said.
“If we now start saying we are supposed to go for four years and it is written well we are supposed to do three years, somebody else will go to court.
“We are cognizant of that (Sports Act) and that is why we are saying, we are an interim office, like a transit office. Now, the next office will go for four years.”
While he remains committed to handing over power next month, Shikanda acknowledges there could be hurdles along the way, especially when it comes to filing the election returns at the Registrar’s office, and is looking at ways of engaging Wasike before the hotly-contested polls.
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