WAYNE CUNNINGHAM, former manager of Caledonia AIA, sports commentator and businessman, has been tipped to replace Lennox Watson as the president of the Eastern Football Association (EFA) today.
The EFA will be holding a Special Extraordinary Meeting today, from 10 am, at the Sepp Blatter Hall, Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, Macoya.
In a media release issued by the EFA on Thursday, “on November 8, a special requisition was received from Barataria Ball Players, Creek SCC, FC Santa Rosa, Pinto United FC, St John’s United FC and La Horquetta Sporting Academy requesting an Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss and vote on a resolution proposed therein.”
And the meeting was set, pursuant to Article 10:11 on the EFA’s constitution.
The six aforementioned clubs are seeking to pass the resolution — “given the political impasse in the EFA and the dissatisfaction of the (six) clubs, be it resolved that the clubs of the EFA instruct the EFA secretariat (Neville Ferguson) to organise an election of officers.”
The resolution continued, “be it further resolved that the EFA clubs also instruct the EFA secretariat to organise (the) election on December 4, two weeks after the adoption of this resolution, consistent with Article 10:4 of the EFA constitution, which requires nominations to be submitted to the EFA secretariat at least 14 days before the date of an election.”
A total of 17 clubs are registered with the EFA, but the six clubs who raised the motion are calling for new elections, after Santa Rosa’s president/owner Keith Look Loy failed in his bid to unseat Watson on August 28.
Watson, who has relinquished the post as EFA boss, is now the acting president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) after last month’s resignation of the long-serving Oliver Camps.