World football governing body FIFA have maintained
they will refrain from any contact with any persons
outside the elected Nigeria Football Federation
executive committee and as such will not receive the
country’s delegation in Brazil to resolve the vexed
issue.
The delegation is believed to include a former CAF
executive, several top sports ministry officials, three
NFF board members and some FA chairmen.
AfricanFootball.com can exclusively reveal that FIFA
in a letter dated July 8 and addressed to Lawrence
Katken and signed by FIFA secretary general Jerome
Valcke read in part: ”FIFA will now refrain from
communicating with any other parties than the duly
elected NFF officials which are the NFF President
Aminu Maigari and the NFF General Secretary Musa
Amadu.”
“Going by this letter, the delegation are only in Brazil
on holidays and possibly to watch the final of the
World Cup between Argentina and Germany at tax
payers’ expense,” an official told AfricanFootball.com
FIFA further said in the letter that decisions taken at
the extraordinary congress staged on Saturday, July
5, are null and void.
The government delegation are in Brazil “to give a
true picture” of what is happening in Nigerian
football.
They argued that it was not Katken who convened
the general assembly, but Effiong Johnson, who is on
the board of the NFF.
However, the statutes of the NFF, which have been
duly endorsed by FIFA, stipulates that only the NFF
president has the power to call a congress and where
he fails, two-third of the congress will notify the
president of the need for such a congress and if he
fails to do so within 60 days, they have a right to
then do so.
FIFA have demanded that the elected NFF and all
their machinery be reinstated before July 15 or a
replacement team for the country’s U20 female team
will be named for the FIFA U20 World Cup, which
kicks off in Canada on August 3.
www.africanfootball.com//news/438486/Ban-FIFA-say-they-wont-receive-Nigeria-delegation

Okay! We don hear!

Why not challenge the suspension at a court in Switzerland or at The Hague?