Kinshasa, April 9th, 2025 (CPA) – On Tuesday, the Congolese Federation of Association Football (FECOFA) instructed the Electoral Commission to postpone the voting process for its Extraordinary Elective General Assembly on 7 June, the CPA learned on Wednesday from an administrative source. ‘You are requested to suspend the current voting operations as soon as possible’, it read. In a related letter dated 8 April and jointly signed by Dieudonné Sambi and Innocent Kibundulu, FECOFA president and general secretary respectively, the national football governing body succinctly outlined the reason for this request to postpone the electoral process. ‘It was prompted by the unhealthy climate created some time ago on social networks by communications aimed at damaging and discrediting the Federation and its leaders, as well as certain candidates’, the statement explained, adding that a way out was to be found in the long-awaited consultation process to get everything in place before the big day. ‘At the proposal of the Ministry of Sport, this meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss the issue (of the Extraordinary Elective General Assembly) and to consider how to ease tensions and smooth out the situation so that the process can continue’.
This is why FECOFA has instructed the Electoral Committee and the Appeals Committee to postpone all operations leading up to the Extraordinary Elective General Assembly of FECOFA, taking all stakeholders by surprise. As a result, all eyes are on the Electoral Commission as it awaits this consultation meeting, the date and venue of which have not been specified.
However, indications have been given of the participants expected at the consultation meeting. They are: the Education College of the Presidency, the Military Intelligence Staff (DEMIAP), the Minister of Sport, the FECOFA Normalization Committee (Conor), the chairmen of the Electoral and Electoral Appeals Commissions, as well as the CAF Panel of Experts.