Sports Minister gives terms of reference for LMC New Season

Sports activities Minister, Sunday Dare, is to launch phrases of reference and job description for the Interim Administration Committee (IMC), a physique he arrange not too long ago to handle the Nigeria Skilled Soccer League (NPFL).

Dare had shut down the League Administration Firm (LMC), headed by former board member of the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF), Shehu Dikko, and arrange the IMC. He claimed that the choice was authorities’s final resort to salvage the nation’s soccer.

The Guardian learnt yesterday that a part of the job descriptions to be handed the Gbenga Elegbeleye-led IMC, tomorrow, is to establish monies acquired by Shehu Dikko and his group at LMC prior to now seven years, how they have been utilised and in addition take inventory of property and liabilities of the League.

There have been divided opinion on Dare’s motion, with watchers, saying that as a Sports activities Minister, his responsibility is to advise the NFF on how you can run its affairs, however to not ‘superimpose’ his opinion on them.

However, some have supported Dare’s bid to clear the ‘rot’ within the soccer physique within the final seven years.

The Sports activities Minister disclosed not too long ago that the NFF, below President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, has acquired in extra of N16 billion.

Recall that operatives of the Nigeria Police Drive stormed the workplace of the LMC in Abuja to seal it up.

The IMC, which Dare arrange about two weeks in the past, will change the ‘unlawful’ LMC headed by Dikko. Earlier than then, the LMC working licence was stated to have been withdrawn by the NFF following a directive from the Sports activities Ministry.

Whereas former Director Common within the ministry, Gbenga Elegbeleye, is chairman of the brand new IMC, veteran journalist and soccer administrator, Paul Bassey, is the vice chairman.

Former Tremendous Eagles and Enugu Rangers striker, Davidson Owumi, is the top of operations, with Olumide Bamiduro because the secretary.

Different members of the IMC embody Kunle Soname, Daniel Amokachi, Calvin Emeka Onwuka, Aliyu Adamu, a consultant of the NFF, consultant of the Nigeria Police Drive and membership homeowners chairman, Barrister Danladi Ibrahim.