If this Caf award is not meant for Hakimi even if they had won the Club world cup nothing would have changed it because they would use another criteria to access them, meanwhile i think this season is a bit tougher in prediction because the last one was more certain.
Trophies and individual contributions will be used to access who deserves the CAF award, if the extent at which they eneded in the Club World Cup pulls him ahead of others in the ranking. Hakimi is not a striker or forwarder as Salah and Osimhen, if he has to be included in the race for CAF award, other achievements will be focused on, like titles and individual key moments for the club. I know we are Nigerians and it will be difficult to turn on our own, Osimhen did well but Hakimi was awesome and i think he deserves it.
If you ask me, individual contribution shouldn't be regarded because of the domestic league reasons, there are leagues that only one club is highly superior to every other while there are also leagues that has a lot of clubs on the equal strength so actually the contribution of players on those places will be very different and the players who belongs to the superior team on there domestic league will have so much contribution because they have all the chances to so including this on the criteria will certainly discriminate others that came from the opposite side of privilege team.