Club Owners urge NFF to inaugurate Interim Management Committee for NPFL

Nigeria Professional Football League Club owners have urged the new president of the Nigerian Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau to inaugurate the Interim Management Committee (IMC) to temporarily run the league.

The meeting held on Monday had as its objectives, the repositioning of the Nigerian topflight league and making it professional.

The club owners expressed concerns about the league and how it was run by the League Management Company which was suspended by the Ministry of Sports.

The club owners congratulated the new NFF boss and and members of his board and expressed their total support for the new board. Among the resolutions reached by the club owners is that the league needs to be fixed to run as a professional body.

They noted that the league suffers from lack from lack of sponsorship, TV broadcast, poor officiating, insufficient funding, lack of match integrity, poor remuneration of match officials and huge indebtedness.

They also listed poor infrastructure, incompetent administrators, no prize money for winners of the league.

The 13 club owners present at the occasion were Elder Paul Bassey (Akwa United FC); Adamu Aliyu Mohammed (Niger Tornadoes FC); Coach Amehi Dickson (Dakkada FC); Promise Nwachukwu (Heartland FC); Ferdinand Emeka (Rangers Int’l FC): Prince Tunde Ogunja (Sunshine Stars).

Others are Rt. Hon. Tunde Olaniyan (Shooting Stars FC); Abubakar Abubakar (Gombe United FC); Mr. Dominic Iorfa (Lobi Stars FC); Mr. Jude Anyadufu (Enyimba FC) and Alhaji Abdulsamad Badama (Katsina United FC).

Also present at the meeting was NFF’s Deputy General Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme and Ag. Director of Legal, Barr. Okey Obi.