Adamu denies cash-for-votes claim 22/10/2010 |
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Nigerian official Amos Adamu has denied any wrongdoing after being provisionally suspended by Fifa over allegations of bribery.
The Sunday Times newspaper claimed Adamu and Tahiti's Reynald Temarri asked for cash in exchange for their votes on who will host the 2018 World Cup.
Both Adamu, the Nigerian president of the West African Football Union, and Temarri are members of Fifa's 24-man executive committee and therefore have a say in who will host the upcoming tournaments in 2018 and 2022.
However, the pair were suspended this week after the undercover investigation appeared to show the Nigerian official asking for money to be paid directly to him.
Fifa's ethics committee will meet again in mid-November to make a final decision, but Adamu refutes the allegations.
He said in a statement: "Allegations were made against me by a British newspaper on October 17, 2010 which prompted a Fifa ethics committee meeting which concluded I should be provisionally suspended from my Fifa duties.
"Whilst I wholly refute all allegations made, I fully support the inquiry since it is important that these claims are thoroughly investigated.
"Only by doing this will Fifa – and the wider football community – be able to trust that its appointed representatives are beyond reproach."
Meanwhile, the chief of the Portuguese Football Federation Gilberto Madail has rejected allegations of collusion with other candidates after Spain-Portugal and Qatar were named as the bids being investigated by Fifa.
"We received with surprise and indignation the analysis that Fifa's ethics committee may [act] on a rumour circulated in September in the English media about an alleged deal between the Iberian and the Qatari bids for hosting the World Cup," said Madail.
"It is odd that there is an attempt to launch completely unfounded suspicions about the Iberian bid at a time when there are news reports about alleged vote-selling for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups involving other bids."
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