Ayew, Aubameyang appear at CAF Awards with their legendary footballing dads
Two of the contestants for tonight's 2015 Africa Footballer of the Year award turned up at the event in Abuja with their ex-footballer dads with Andre Ayew arriving with Abedi Pele while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is in the company of his father Pierre Francois Aubameyang.
The two contestants are hoping to win their first award as they come up against Ivorian stalwart, Yaya Toure, who already has a place in the history of this football awards for Africa.
They are hoping the presence of their dads will give them the necessary boost to help them secure the coveted prize in African football.
Pierre Francois Aubameyang "Yaya" is a former Gabonese football defender.
He won over 80 caps for the Gabonese national team.
Abedi Pele is a Ghana superstar who won the African Footballer of the Year award three times.
Manchester City stalwart, Yaya Toure, already has a place in African football history but Ghana superstar Andre Ayew and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon are seeking to outdo the Ivorian at tonight's 2015 CAF African Footballer of the Year.
This evening at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, the four-time winner of the Glo-CAF African Footballer of the Year has another chance to further elongate the number of times he ruled the continent. And if that happens, Toure would have emerged as the only player in Africa to win the award five times.
When he won the 2014 edition, Toure only equaled the four-time that Camerounian Samuel Eto'o Fils did, though all his four were in a row (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014). Eto'o only won three in a row.
That in itself was a record for Toure. But adding the fifth in a row appears an impossible task for any player to emulate now or even in the near future.