Ibrahim Musa Gusau has emerged winner of the presidential election of the Nigeria Football Federation.

He beat another favoured candidate, Seyi Akinwunmi, and other contestants.

After a heated controversial process, Gusau was elected as the new NFF President at NFF’s 78th Elective Congress in Benin, the Edo State capital.

He polled 21 votes to defeat his closet challenger, Akinwunmi, who got 12. The second runner-up, erstwhile League Management Committee Chairman, Shehu Dikko, garnered six votes.

He will be succeeding Amaju Pinnick, whose tenure has been greeted with mixed verdicts.

While he and his supporters say he moved the sector forward, others said Nigerian football retgrogressed under him.