Danny Jordaan, pictured, and Chabur Goc Aleihas have withdrawn from the race for a place on the FIFA Council ©Getty Images

Danny Jordaan, President of the South African Football Association (SAFA), and South Sudan’s Chabur Goc Aleihas have both withdrawn from the race to become an African representative on the FIFA Council, just a week before elections for the post were due to be held.

The duo withdrew from the vote without reason just hours before football's world governing body announced the results of background investigations carried out on the candidates.

All 10 names in the running for the positions on the FIFA Council from Africa successfully passed the checks.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA were notified of their withdrawals on Monday (March 6).

The pair, though, are still set to run for places on CAF's Executive Committee.

As a result, Almamy Kabele Camara of Guinea has been elected unopposed to the FIFA Council.

Jordaan, former chief executive of the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, faced charges of fraud and corruption in 2015 following an alleged $10 million (£6.5 million/€9 million) bribe to secure votes to win the right to host the tournament.

In 2015, the Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s main opposition party, said cases were opened against both Jordaan and Molefi Oliphant, President of the SAFA at the time when the alleged bribe was supposedly arranged in 2007 to Jack Warner, the ex-President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football

Former FIFA Executive Committee member Chuck Blazer admitted the payment was a bribe to secure votes for South Africa, according to United States authorities investigating corruption at world football’s governing body.

FIFA has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since May 2015, when several officials were arrested on the eve of its Congress in Zurich.

Guinea's Almamy Kabele Camara is set to be for unopposed for a place on the FIFA Council following the withdrawal of his three rivals from the Confederation of African Football elections ©Getty Images
Guinea's Almamy Kabele Camara is set to be for unopposed for a place on the FIFA Council following the withdrawal of his three rivals from the Confederation of African Football elections ©Getty Images

The 1988 African Footballer of the Year Kalusha Bwalya of Zambia had already pulled out from the elections last weekend.

The former President of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) reportedly accepted an $80,000 (£64,000/€72,000) bribe from disgraced former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohammed bin Hammam to influence the 2022 World Cup bid.

Bwalya claims the $80,000 was a debt on behalf of the FAZ but the money has allegedly never been seen or recorded anywhere in the national governing body’s financial books.

In all, Africa has seven FIFA Council places with one reserved for the winner of next week’s CAF Presidential election in Addis Ababa on March 16.

Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad is set to challenge Cameroon's Issa Hayatou, who has led CAF since 1988, for the Presidency of the organisation which has 54 FIFA Member Associations.

At present, the outcome of the election looks set to be close.

Another place from Africa is reserved for a female candidate, which looks set to be won by Lydia Nsekera of Burundi.

The other five places will also be determined by elections in Ethiopia's Council.

The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) has once again publicly supported its regional Presidents in the upcoming elections.

"COSAFA would like to reiterate that it will support the candidature of Ahmad Ahmad for the position of CAF President," they said in a statement.

"For CAF Executive Committee positions, COSAFA will back the candidature of France Mbidi, the President of the Namibia Football Association and COSAFA vice-president, and that of SAFA President, Danny Jordaan."