HARARE – The a lot awaited upcoming Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) Executive Committee election set for January 25 in Harare has continued to be solid doubtful.

It comes after some people who had been disqualified from contesting owing to varied causes, try by all means to cease the ballot citing their grievances.

A report by H-Metro suggests the pair of Benjani Mwaruwari and Gift Banda is searching for postponement of the election till their circumstances they lodged with Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) are resolved.

Apart from the 2, different ZIFA presidential aspirants Prophet Walter Magaya and Temba Mliswa who had been additionally disqualified, are difficult their disqualification on the High Court.

Magaya’s case was deferred to Friday by High Court Judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi who dominated that the applying deserves to be handled as an pressing matter.

It means the High Court will hear Magaya’s problem towards his disqualification from the ZIFA presidential race on the day.

Magaya is difficult ZIFA’s new constitutional modification that requires all people searching for to contest for president and vp posts to be holders of 5 ‘O’ ranges or equal.

Magaya who didn’t submit the required academic qualification, didn’t go the eligibility take a look at, and was disqualified from contesting within the January 25 election.

Reports recommend he was disqualified as a result of failure to supply an O’stage certificates and likewise as a result of his pending court docket circumstances and a conviction of the Aguma scandal.

In 2019, a court docket convicted Magaya of fraud and fined him $700 (£540) for falsely claiming he had found a natural remedy for HIV and Aids (Aguma).

On the opposite hand, Mliswa’s case was additionally deferred to at this time (Thursday) by High Court Judge Justice Ngoni Nduna.

Mliswa is contesting the legitimacy of the ZIFA Congress, claiming there are some irregularities concerning the electoral course of.

Mliswa contends that the ZIFA Congress’ mandate led to 2022 at a time Zimbabwe was on a FIFA suspension, in consequence, the councillors shouldn’t take part within the upcoming elections.

He argues that ZIFA elections ought to begin from backside to high, not vice versa.

All this has solid doubt on the ZIFA election.

However, with 9 days to go, it stays to be seen whether or not the election will go forward or shall be postponed to a different date.