LAHORE Sudan could receive a ban from the FIFA after the government said that Sudan Football Association (SFA)s President Kamal Shaddad and several other candidates could not run for election this month. The FIFA said that it considered those decisions as unacceptable and added that it would not recognise the results of an election held under such conditions and had a range of sanctions including suspension or expulsion. Sudan is due to host the African Nations Championship and the African Confederation congress in 2011. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) was founded in Sudan, which ravaged by decades of civil war, last won the African Nations Cup in 1970. A challenge was made by the chief of a local football association against Shaddad saying that he could not run for a third term unless he held a position in an international football which was not the case. The federal commission for the bodies and youth associations ruled in favour of the challenge and excluded Shaddad from the race. However, the boss of Khartoum-based SFA Shaddad rejected the decision and threatened to escalate the matter to the Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) saying that he is enjoying wide support among sports club across the country. The decision to bar Shaddad, says the government, is in line with Sudanese law which says a candidate cannot run for a third term without holding an international football job recognised by the sports ministry. The FIFA strongly objects to any government interference in football and only threatened to expel Nigeria after President Goodluck Jonathan banned the national team from international football following the countrys first-round exit at the World Cup. Any election without respecting the SFA statutes and/or under governmental interference will not be recognised by the FIFA, the FIFA said. In addition, such interference may lead to sanctions such as suspension or expulsion. FIFA has written to the Sudan governments Sports Commission to voice its concerns. The FIFA frequently takes active roles in the running of the sport and developing the game around the world. One of its sanctions is to suspend affiliated country from international competition when a government interferes in the running of FIFAs Member Association. The FIFA has strict statutes that forbid government influence on affiliated 208 nations. The governing body does not allow government interference in footballing matters. If you participate in the FIFA, everybody has to abide by the FIFA statutes, otherwise they can stay in their country, said FIFA President Sepp Blatter. The FIFAs Emergency Committee used to take decision over member association and suspend them from all international activity due to government interference in football matters and violation of 'article 17 of the FIFA statutes. The 'article 17 relates to the independence of all member association of the FIFA free of any government interference. FIFA added: The FIFA Emergency Committee took decision after determining that a soccer body not adhering to the principles of the FIFA statutes regarding the independence of member associations, the independence of the decision-making process of the football governing body in each country and the way in which changes in the leadership of associations are brought about. Nigeria backed down this month after the FIFA threatened to suspend it over government interference. Earlier this year, El Salvador and two years ago, the soccer bodies of Republic of Chad, Madagascar, Iraq have been hit with a worldwide ban by the FIFA. In 2006, Greece and Iran underwent ban because of excessive government interference. The FIFA also suspended Kenya for three months in 2004 and Bangladesh in early 2002 for what they called government interference.