South Africa’s 2010 World Cup chief Danny Jordaan is to challenge CAF president Issa Hayatou for the top post in the continental body when it holds its elections in Sudan early next year. The disclosure emerges from a report in Rwanda’s Daily Times today which says Jordaan is targeting votes from the Cecafa region ahead of next year’s elections in Sudan. Jordaan, who was part of South Africa’s delegation that graced the two-day Cecafa congress at the weekend, is challenging Issa Hayatou for CAF's top seat (president). Jordaan has grown into a world figure after a job well done in his role as CEO of the 2010 Fifa World Cup organising committee and he is aware that unseating Hayatou who has been at the helm since 1987 will be no easy task, the report adds. Hayatou took the reins following the retirement of Ydnekatchew Tessema of Ethiopia. Cecafa chairman Leodegar Tenga and former Ferwafa vice president Celestin Musabyimana will also contest for one of CAF’s executive seats. Meanwhile, Hayatou is under siege with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcing that will open an ethics investigation into the CAF president over allegations that he took kickbacks from Fifa’s former marketing agency, though Fifa has dismissed the allegation. The IOC said today it will ask the BBC to pass on evidence against the Fifa vice president that were broadcast Monday night in a programme on alleged corruption in soccer’s governing body. Hayatou, the Cameroonian president of Africa’s soccer confederation, has been an IOC member since 2001. The BBC programme alleged that Hayatou received about R150 000 in secret payments from the ISL marketing agency in 1995. Two other Fifa executive committee members were also accused of receiving bribes. Source: Kickoff.com