‘NPFL club owners won’t toil with people’s money’ – chairman Isaac Danladi

By Oyediji Oluwaseun Babatunde

Chairman of Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) Club Owners Association, Barrister Isaac Danladi says the fight between the Interim Management Company and club owners is over.

16 clubs rejected to an abridged league as earlier proposed by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the league ahead of the opening match of the 2022/2023 NPFL season. However the log-jam was resolved following the intervention of the NFF president Ibrahim Gusau and some top football stakeholders in the country.

Before the opening match between Akwa United and Bendel Insurance which ended 2-0 in favour of the visitors, the clubs recieved a take-off grant of  10 million naira each to execute the abridge league format

“I thank God Almighty for making it possible for this event this takes place and tell you that the club owners are a very credible association and would not want to toil with people’s money. We believed that what has started now,” Danladi told Brila FM.

“God will bring to fruition. We hope that this will open up more vistas for a more and better relationship. Honestly, I am so happy because when we started this we knew that it was natural. Even the throat and the mouth often disagree and at the end of it all we disagree to agree,” he concluded.