Pinnick won the election which held at the CAF 39th Ordinary General Assembly at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa on Thursday, March 16.

The Delta State born football administrator defeated long-standing member Anjorin Moucharafou who is also the head of Benin Republic Football Federation.

Pinnick got 32 votes to Moucharafou's 17 to become the West Zone B representative at the CAF Executive Committee.

Pinnick will serve from 2017-2021 for his first term.

It was a perfect day for Pinnick whose candidate for CAF presidency Ahmad Ahmad.

It was a tough couple of weeks for the former Chairman of the Delta State Football Association (DFA)who fell out with the Nigerian Government and the Sports Ministry.

The fallout was as a result of his backing of Ahmad over Cameroon's Hayatou.

The Federal Government through the Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung warned Pinnick that working against Hayatou was against the foreign policy of Nigeria as Cameroon, the home country of Hayatou as an 'ally' to Nigeria.

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Born in 1973, Pinnick was elected as boss of the NFF in September 2014; his tenure as NFF boss expires in 2018.

Before becoming the president of the NFF, Pinnick served as Delta State Sports Commission chairman and Delta FA boss.