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Nkechi Obi vows to involve stakeholders for the betterment of NWFL
By Monsurah Olatunji
Newly appointed Nigeria Women’s Football League chairperson, Nkechi Obi, pledged to meet with stakeholders in women’s football to discuss a future for the domestic leagues.
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Monday inaugurated the chairmen and members of the newly-constituted League Boards of the Nigeria National League, Nigeria Nationwide League One, and the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL).
Speaking at the final games of the 2023 NWFL Championship in Ikenne, Ogun state, where Dannaz Ladies and Lakeside Queens earned promotion to the Premiership, Obi who took over from Aisha Falode affirmed that the board would have a meeting to discuss its agenda for women’s football.
“I am a strong believer in stakeholder engagement. The various stakeholders involved in women’s football, I am going to talk to them,” the new chairperson told media.
“Even those that we don’t know and are not even identified might be the biggest and most supportive stakeholders. We would identify them and engage some of them.
“I am also a strong supporter of sisterhood. Sisterhood is getting women for women which is to support women. Getting those high-network women to see women’s football as a platform to spread the support.
“How many of our high-network women have we brought to make them have an interest in women’s football? I and the board would find a way to engage with high-network women.
“Then we would look at stakeholders and people who have money in places for women’s development. Let’s go and find them and tell them that this women’s development, football can also help.”
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