As the wrangle over the NFF seat continues, one of the factions
has appointed a deceased arbiter for Sunday’s NPFL clash
between the Seasiders and Jos Elephant.
Chris Giwa’s group of the Nigeria Football Federation has listed
a late referee Wale Akinsanya for this weekend’s Week 13
Nigeria Professional Football League fixture between Warri
Wolves and Giwa FC.
Akinsanya passed away during a Nigeria Referees Association
fitness test on January 22, 2016 and has since been committed
to mother earth.
In a statement sent to the League Management Company and
signed by Yahaya Adama, the deceased arbiter was appointed to
handle the clash billed for the Warri City Stadium, and to be
assisted by Tope Orowole and Adeleke M.
On Wednesday, Giwa’s group had rejected the peace move by
sports minister, Solomon Dalung to end the crisis rocking the
football federation.
In a statement signed by the group’s chairman of chairmen,
Effiong Johnson, it urged Nigerians to disregard the action of the
minister, as it was to deceive football followers.
“In the first place, the minister is a party to the case in court as
the fourth defendant and when the court by an Order made on
April 8 2016 restored all its previous orders, including the order
which nullified and set aside the election which purportedly
produced Amaju Pinnick et al,” Johnson wrote in a statement.
“The minister betrayed his partisanship in the dispute by
wasting no time to hold brief for the Amaju Pinnick group in his
erroneous and flawed public statement that the group was
entitled to 30 days to appeal against the ruling of the court.
“The minister has thus lost the moral podium to midwife any
settlement of the dispute. Secondly, the composition of the
membership of the so-called reconciliation committee leaves no
one in doubt that it was constituted only for a hatchet job for the
Amaju Pinnick group.
“Virtually all members of the committee are associates of the
Amaju Pinnick group. For instance, Musa Amadu is not only a
co-defendant with the minister in the case but is also the
chairman of the Organising & Disciplinary Committee of the
Amaju Pinnick group. Barrister Okey Obi has made statements
in many fora on behalf of the Amaju Pinnick group and has also
appeared in court as counsel to the defendants, while Paul
Bassey is known to be an avowed supporter of the Amaju
Pinnick group.”
Former NFF boss Ibrahim Galadima is the head of the seven-
man reconciliation committee, which has one week to submit its
report.

http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4111/npfl/2016/04/22/22683182/bizarre-nff-appoints-dead-referee-for-league-game

Ok

fruitfulvine360:
Ok

OK

adioolayi:
OK