The Confederation of African Football (Caf) will drop the disciplinary case against Phillip Chiyangwa, the head of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa), following the exit of Issa Hayatou.
The new ruler of the continental ruling body will make the politically motivated action against Chiyangwa the first issue as he takes over the reigns of CAF.
That is because the action against Chiyangwa, who is also the FA chief of Zimbabwe, was mooted by Hayatou who deemed a party organised by the latter as a move to destabilise his government.
The Zimbabwean leader called the party - which Hayatou desperately tried to stop- to shore up support for Ahmad ahead of the election.
Madagascar’s Ahmad beat Hayatou 34 votes to 20 during the General Assembly head at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday paving the way for him to take over the continental body.
Chiyangwa is an outspoken critic of Hayatou and describes himself as the campaign manager for Madagascar FA president Ahmad, who defeated Hayatou in Thursday's Caf presidential election.
Under Hayatou Caf said Chiyangwa's recent actions and statements appear to ``attack the honour of the Caf, its president and the members of the executive committee.''
Hayatou's Caf decided to proceed with the case against Chiyangwa - the Zimbabwe FA president - at its executive committee meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday - two days before the election.
Now with Ahmad in charge that action will be permanently binned to the dustbin of Hayatou's history.
Earlier this month, Chiyangwa escalated his war of words with CAF when threatening legal action against both Hayatou and the organisation's Secretary General Hicham El Amrani.
Chiyangwa has been involved in a previous dispute with Caf over a party he hosted in Zimbabwe last month which was attended by Fifa president Gianni Infantino and other African federation heads.
For various reasons, Hayatou's Caf said the meeting was against its regulations and an attempt to ``destabilise'' the African football body.
Caf's 54 full member countries voted in Thursday's presidential election, booting Hayatou out of office.
The 70-year-old Hayatou was seeking an eighth term in office that would have taken his 29-year reign into a fourth decade.
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