NIGERIA MAY BID TO HOST 2019 AFCON.

Africa’s most populous nation,
Nigeria is among the six
countries bidding to host the
2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals,
Completesports can report.
Nigeria had wanted to be a substitute for
Libya for the 2013 edition but South Africa
did the deal ahead of them.
President of the Nigeria Football Federation,
Alhaji Aminu Maigari said the country
wanted to host another AFCON Finals having
co-hosted with Ghana in 2000 and been
solo hosts in 1980.
“We want Nigeria to host because we are
capable, we did it before and we want to do
it better next time around,’’ Maigari said.
Other countries which have expressed
interests in hosting the competition are
Congo Democratic Republic,Algeria, Kenya,
Liberia and Zambia.
The Congolese appear to be the early front
runner with their bid documents already
passed on to the Confederation of African
Football [CAF] by the Congolese Football
Federation.
However, Confederation of African Football
[CAF] have refused to confirm the names of
the countries which have shown interests in
hosting the 2019 edition, as the bidding
process is yet to commence.
“We have had expressions of interests but
we have not yet started the process for the
bidding candidates, so we cannot release
any names,” CAF General Secretary, Hicham El
Amrani recently said.
Morocco and Libya will host the next two
editions of the competition slated for 2015
and 2017.