Former head of the FIBA Africa marketing council and president Dodan Warriors Basketball Programme, Col Sam Ahmedu (rtd) has emerged the new president of FIBA Africa in charge of Zone 3 at the 16th Congress of FIBA Africa held in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Ahmedu, who was formerly a member of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF and chairman technical committee emerged president of Zone three after an initial 4 all votes on July 30, 2014 between him and the former Zone 3 president, Muktah Khaleh also of Nigeria who stepped down.

Khaleh’s gesture to step down, it was gathered came after a series of meetings initiated by Nigeria’s basketball president Tijani Umar with Ahmedu and other top FIBA World and FIBA Africa big wigs in attendance after which Ahmedu was given the clear by all eight delegates.

With that decided,Nigeria remains in charge of basketball programmes in the zone which comprises Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’ Ivoire, Nigeria, Liberia, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic.

However, Khaleh remains in the FIBA Africa as he is now president of FIBA Africa finance council. He replaces Hamane Niang of Mali who is now president of the African basketball ruling body after the immediate past president Mabusa Eseka of Democratic Republic of Congo stepped down.

In Zone 1, Omar El Barshushi of Libya emerged while Rokhaya Pouye of Senegal leads Zone 2. Juvenal Lufuma of DR Congo leads the affairs of Zone 4 just as Hesha El Hariri of Egypt takes charge