"Now that I have been able to dispel the suspicions that some people have gone to great lengths to cast on me, I can retire with peace of mind." That's how Véron Mosengo-Omba chose to close five years as CAF general secretary — not quietly, and not without getting the last word.
The Swiss-Congolese official announced Sunday he was stepping down from the role he took on in 2021 after leaving FIFA, citing a desire to pursue "more personal projects." Nigeria's Samson Adamu has been confirmed as acting general secretary by the Nigerian Football Federation.
The shadow of the Swiss investigation
Mosengo-Omba's tenure was complicated by allegations of financial wrongdoing — the kind of cloud that doesn't lift cleanly regardless of the outcome. In January 2025, the Swiss Public Prosecutor's Office closed its investigation, finding "no facts or legal basis to initiate legal proceedings." He's been keen to make that point publicly, and Sunday's statement leaned heavily on it.
Whether you take that as full vindication or a narrower legal finding is a matter of perspective. Either way, it shaped the final stretch of his time at the top of African football's administration.
Mosengo-Omba arrived at CAF with serious FIFA pedigree — he's a university friend of Gianni Infantino and followed him from UEFA to FIFA back in 2016. That kind of network matters in football governance. His successor, Samson Adamu, steps into a role that carries real weight across a continent with 54 member associations and growing commercial ambition.
Women's AFCON still on for Morocco
CAF president Patrice Motsepe used Sunday's executive committee meeting in Cairo to confirm the Women's Africa Cup of Nations will proceed in Morocco as planned — now scheduled for July 25 to August 16, after being pushed back from the original March 17–April 3 window. That last-minute postponement had raised eyebrows, so the confirmation provides at least some stability around the tournament.
For anyone with an interest in African football's governance trajectory, the real question is what Adamu's appointment signals beyond the short term — and whether this is a genuine transition or a holding pattern while CAF figures out its next move.
