The 2022 NFF Elections will be held on or before 20th September 2022 assures NFF

The governing physique of soccer in Nigeria, the NFF (Nigeria Soccer Federation) has confirmed that the Emergency Common Meeting will maintain in Lagos on Thursday August 18, 2022.

This was made recognized to the general public by the Federation’s First Vice-president, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi by way of a 3 minute and forty-one second video titled “That is my stand”.

“Within the gentle of all which were taking place in Nigeria soccer, I’ve determined to ship down my assurance and private stand on these points. As we’re all conscious, there was darkish cloud of uncertainty surrounding the administration of our soccer previously few months. We’ve got a scenario the place the difficulty of courtroom injuction has affected our soccer administration. This time, it’s an interim injuction granted in December, 2021, a go well with filed in Yenogoa Bayelsa Excessive Court docket which has restrained the NFF from convening its Annual Common Meeting (AGA) for over seven months.”

“Many members of the Congress have given an ultimatum to the Govt Committee to name the AGA inside a specified time.”

“In accordance with the view of Nigeria soccer fraternity as expressed on a number of foral many members of Govt Committee have demanded that the Govt Committee should ensured that the 2022 NFF Elections happen in September this yr throughout the electoral life span of the present board.”

“The Plaintiff within the related go well with in Bayelsa State and beneficiary of the interim injuction has forfieted his proper and filed for the discontinuous of the go well with.

“In full settlement and allignment to the statute above, about the place NFF is supreme legislation for the administration of soccer in Nigeria topic after all to any battle to the legal guidelines of Nigeria. By advantage of NFF Statute, Annual Common Meeting as at present constituted is supreme legislative physique.

The Congress has been knowledgeable by the NFF Common Secretary that after the botched AGA earlier fastened for August 16 in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State, AGA has now been fastened for 18th of August 2022 in Lagos State. As Chairman of Lagos State Soccer Affiliation, I look ahead to receiving you within the Heart of Excellence. I want to make it abundantly clear that I help the full adherence to the letters of NFF Statute, supremacy of the Congress and the dedication that the 2022 NFF Elections be held on or earlier than the twentieth of September, 2022.”