World football’s governing body voted to suspend the FBF at its Congress in Mexico City last month “due to a recent injunction by a local judicial court which impeded the holding of the due election”.

Their exile from FIFA does not appear to have lasted long, however, with key elections now set to take place.

FIFA’s ruling Council, the rebranded Executive Committee, conditionally removed the sanctions on the FBF providing the elections were staged “no later than June 11, 2016”.

Should they go ahead as planned, Benin will be free to play a crucial 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea, who hosted the 2015 tournament, in Cotonou on Sunday (June 12).

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) had postponed the Group C clash, originally scheduled for June 5, but confirmed it would be staged on Sunday providing the elections are held.

Benin's minister of sport Oswald Homeky remained hopeful the saga would soon be over, claiming they were “still in discussions with the protagonists of the crisis in the Football Federation”.

“Following the decision of the FIFA Council on the conditional lifting of the suspension of Benin, CAF decided to postpone the qualifier initially scheduled for June 5," a CAF statement said.

"If this condition is not met, the game will simply be cancelled and the Organising Committee for the Africa Cup of Nations will rule on the case.”

Benin haven’t qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations since the 2010 edition in  but remain well placed to do so this time around.

They sit second in Group C, two points behind Mali.

The FBF’s suspension was on the agenda at the FIFA Congress in the Mexican capital in May, where Gibraltar and Kosovo were added as the 210th and 211th members of world football’s governing body.

The Congress voted to lift the suspension placed on the Football Federation of Indonesia but declined to follow suit concerning the Kuwait Football Federation.