Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) presidential candidate Raymond Anderson said his Real Solid Action (RSA) campaign team is ready and waiting whenever the voting congress is announced.

The presidential election had been scheduled for January 14, 2024 at Rusea’s High School in Hanover, but was postponed due to an injunction granted by the Supreme Court, following an appeal made on behalf of Beach Soccer Jamaica to become registered with the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ).

The COJ registration would allow those parties’ ratification to become delegates ahead of the much-anticipated election.

However, on February 9, it was believed that the way was cleared for the JFF to announce a new election date after the Supreme Court denied the application for the continuation of the temporary injunction.

The JFF is also awaiting the go-ahead from the world governing body, FIFA, after they intervened and requested all documents surrounding the court case.

But in another twist, Pat Garel and Beach Soccer Jamaica filed an appeal against the latest decision of the court and served notice to the JFF, which could further delay the holding of the voting congress, if another injunction is subsequently sought and granted.

Anderson, who has been a long-serving vice-president of the JFF, is challenging his boss Michael Ricketts for the top post and he confidently said that he is ready to take the reins, through a recent press release.

“We, the RSA team, are ready for any new election date called in compliance with the constitution but await the decision of FIFA and the electoral committee concerning the voters’ list and properly recognised affiliates under the constitution,” said Anderson.

He continued: “All we ask for is a fair election in keeping with what obtains in the constitution.”

Anderson’s RSA slate includes ISSA president Keith Wellington, Jacqueline Cummings-Martin, St Ann Football Association president Donald Beckford and former St James president Orville Powell as vice-presidents, while Carole Beckford and Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron, the former Cricket West Indies president, would serve as ordinary directors.

Ricketts’ team consists of St James FA president Gregory Daley, St Catherine boss Elaine Walker-Brown along with Baron Watson and Raymond Grant, presidents of the Manchester and Portland football bodies, respectively, putting themselves forward as vice-president candidates, with Rudolph Speid and Bruce Gaynor running as directors.

Anderson in his statement, noted that in the lead-up to the election, while doing work in the field, he discovered a few anomalies with some of the stakeholders and brought this to the attention of the JFF and the public.

“It ranged from attempts to disenfranchise some of the existing organisations/affiliates who are listed as members of the JFF and the sudden inclusion of recently formed groups by board members,” said Anderson.

“We also exposed the situation of other affiliate bodies that did not comply with the constitutional requirements to give them the right to vote. We brought our concerns to the attention of the electoral committee of the JFF and were ignored and hence we lodged an appeal to the appeals committee of the JFF,” he added.

Ricketts, a former chairman of the South Central Confederation and Clarendon FA president, has headed the JFF since 2017.