Rida, the head of the Egyptian Football Association who served as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee which awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively, claimed 50 votes.

Cameroon's Ngoufonja, the former FIFA senior development manager for Africa, received just four.

Leodegar Tenga of Tanzania and Mauritius' Mohamed Samir Sobha both withdrew before the vote took place, echoing the FIFA Council elections held at the Asian Football Confederation Congress this morning.

There had been confusion over whether Ngoufonja would be able to stand prior to the election.

On the agenda for today's CAF meeting, he was listed as being "provisionally admitted" in the race for the one remaining CAF seat.

The Cameroonian reportedly missed the deadline to submit his candidacy.

It was also claimed the Cameroon Football Association - who nominated him for the position - withdrew his nomination at the last minute.

But he was allowed to enter the election, although he was always the huge underdog up against experienced official Abo Rida, a member of the FIFA Executive Committee since 2009.

The Egyptian was a close ally of Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam, who was banned for life by FIFA in 2012.

Bin Hammam had initially been exiled from the sport in 2011 for his part in the cash-for-votes scandal relating to the FIFA Presidential election that year, where he withdrew his candidacy three days before the vote.

But this was annulled at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) who found "insufficient evidence" to support the sanction.

He was banned for life again by FIFA in December 2012, however, supposedly for "conflicts of interest" in his role as AFC President.

Abo Rida's role in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup vote, which remains the subject of a criminal investigation, has also come under scrutiny. 

"Everybody knows that I have very good relations with my colleagues in all of the federations," he said after his election victory.

"I don't need to campaign because everyone has known me for 25 years.

"We will try hard to help many countries within the CAF."

At this morning's CAF Executive Committee meeting, Kwesi Nyantakyi of Ghana was confirmed as the first vice-president of the governing body.

Nyantakyi was re-elected as a FIFA Council member at the CAF Congress in Addis Ababa in March, where Ahmad Ahmad successfully unseated Issa Hayatou as President.