As CAF names African Footballer Of The Year: It may be Mikel Obi

As Confederation of African Football (CAF) will soon name the winner of the 2013 African Footballer Award scheduled to hold at Eko Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria tonight, many people are suspecting that 26-year-old Nigerian born Chelsea Football Club of England player, John Mikel Obi, may be conferred with African Footballer Of The Year. Obi will be flown in and out of Lagos by the jet of his EPL club Chelsea for the CAF Awards today. We wish him good luck.
The Glo-CAF Award, which is the most prestigious award in Africa as it confers honours on outstanding African players, coaches, supporters and administrators, is bankrolled by one of Africa’s leading indigenous telecoms operators, Globacom since 2005.
  Other African players who have won the award in the past are: Yaya Toure of Cote d’Ivoire, who plays for Manchester City Football Club in England,  Ivorian and Galatasaray of Turkey star, Didier Drogba who had won the award twice (2006 and 2009).
Below are the past winners:
Past Glo-CAF African Footballer Of The Year Winners
1992 Abedi AYEW PELÉ (Ghana)
1993 Rashidi YEKINI (Nigeria)
1994 Emmanuel AMUNIKE (Nigeria)
1995 George WEAH (Liberia)
1996 Nwankwo KANU (Nigeria)
1997 Victor IKPEBA (Nigeria)
1998 Mustapha HADJI (Morocco)
1999 Nwankwo KANU (Nigeria)
2000 Patrick MBOMA (Cameroon)
2001 El-Hadji DIOUF (Senegal)
2002 El Hadji DIOUF (Senegal)
2003 Samuel ETO’O (Cameroon)
2004 Samuel ETO’O (Cameroon)
2005 Samuel ETO’O (Cameroon)
2006 Didier DROGBA (Côte d’Ivoire)
2007 Frédéric KANOUTE (Mali)
2008 Emmanuel ADEBAYOR (Togo)
2009 Didier DROGBA (Côte d’Ivoire)
2010 Samuel ETO’O (Cameroon)
2011 Yaya TOURE (Côte d’Ivoire)
2012 Yaya TOURE (Côte d’Ivoire)
—Taiwo Adelu
Source: PM News, Lagos