Caribbean football chiefs compared Sepp Blatter to Jesus and Nelson Mandela at the Concacaf Congress in Bahamas yesterday.

The Fifa president was also lauded as “the father of football” as the business meeting, where Bermuda are being represented by Larry Mussenden and David Sabir, turned into a rally for the sport’s top administrator.

Blatter was the only presidential candidate allowed to speak yesterday, with Luis Figo, Michael van Praag, the Dutch Football Association president, and Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, of Jordan, all denied the opportunity to do so.

“When some speak and others are silenced, democracy and football lose. Elections are, per definition, a democratic process. Otherwise they are not elections,” Figo said.

The session was meant to discuss the minutes of the previous gathering but during it Blatter received pledges of support from ten federations, in a move that appeared to have been coordinated before hand. “I think Concacaf membership is sending a clear message that we continue to support president Blatter,” Jeffrey Webb, the Concacaf president, said.

In the past the Caribbean nations have voted as a block for Blatter, but last month Webb said that individual nations would be given a free hand to vote as they saw fit. Mussenden, the Bermuda Football Association president and chairman of Fifa’s Appeals Committee, has said the BFA “will review all submissions from candidates and then determine the way forward”.

Webb, meanwhile, was re-elected unopposed yesterday for a second term as head of Concacaf.

Webb took over as president in 2012 after the resignation of long-standing leader Jack Warner who was embroiled in a cash-for-votes scandal.

“Thank you for your trust and confidence. I am grateful to be given the responsibility to lead this organisation,” Webb said.

The Cayman Islander is also a vice-president of world football’s ruling body Fifa and head of its Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force.