The 66-year-old Cameroonian (pictured top) is set to extend his 26-year reign as head of the CAF as he goes to the elections in Marrakech next month, but claimed: "If I'm elected, this will be last term."

Hayatou will stand unopposed at those elections after Jacques Anouma's challenge to be President was controversially thrown out by the CAF general secretariat.

The CAF revised it election laws in September 2011 and now requires a Presidential aspirant to be a member of its Executive Committee to be eligible to stand.

Anouma, from the Ivory Coast, is not a voted Executive Committee member of CAF and only sits on it as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.

The 58-year-old accountant has said he will take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), however the court threw out a similar complaint in November last year from the Liberia Football Association (LFA), which requested the recently adopted election laws be suspended.

LFA President Hassan Musa Bility, who led the failed protest, has now placed himself among the candidates up for election to the CAF Executive Committee - from the West B zone, alongside South Africa's 2010 World Cup chief executive Danny Jordaan - also ruled ineligible to run for Presidency - who is bidding to become the South zone representative on the Executive Committee.

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