NFF ELECTION: Desperate Board members wants to Scuttle AGM

Until the Federal Authorities takes a decisive step, the a lot talked about Common Meeting of the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF), scheduled for Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on August 16, could not see the sunshine of day. This follows an alleged underground strikes from some ‘determined’ board members to re-awake what an official described as ‘useless’ court docket order.

The NFF is predicted to make use of the Common Meeting in Yenagoa to announce the date and venue for the elections in September.

A supply within the NFF informed The Guardian yesterday that the ‘determined’ officers had concluded plans to re-awake an outdated court docket order filed by Obiene Seigha, which prevented the federation from holding its AGM in Lagos final yr.

“A majority of the board members within the NFF are jobless they usually see the job as their solely technique of survival,” the supply stated. “Now, they’re working desperately to deliver again that ‘useless’ court docket order as a canopy as much as cease the AGM in Yenagoa from holding. If the AGM didn’t maintain, it means no date and venue will likely be introduced for the election.

“What these determined NFF officers wish to do is to inform Nigerians that there’s an present court docket order barring them from holding the AGM. The court docket order has been vacated, however these officers are saying that they haven’t been served and that they don’t wish to be sufferer of contempt of court docket. The federal authorities has to maneuver quick to save lots of our soccer,” the supply acknowledged.

One other disturbing information got here yesterday that the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, has despatched a letter to FIFA, searching for for the postponement of the election of the federation, which is scheduled to happen subsequent month.

Pinnick’s letter to the World’s soccer governing physique, allegedly signed by the federation’s Common Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi, was stated to have left on Wednesday. The NFF requested the world physique to permit it to stage the forthcoming election in January 2023 and never this coming September.

Based on an internet publication yesterday, the letter was already despatched to FIFA earlier than the NFF high photographs knowledgeable different board members, who have been reportedly indignant concerning the improvement.

The NFF Secretary Common, Sanusi, didn’t choose the telephone name put throughout to him by The Guardian yesterday.