Ade Ojeikere's version of the impasse!!
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Galadima fingered in fresh plot to ban Nigeria
•••FIFA’s champagne calls NFA chairman
•••Announcement likely this week
•••As NFA board backpedals, hails sports minister
By Ade Ojeikere
NewAgeSportsExpress can authoritatively reveal today that there are fresh plans to ban Nigeria next week following discussions held between the NFA chairman, Ibrahim Galadima and FIFA’s deputy Secretary General, Jerome Champagne on telephone before the association’s board members met with the honourable Sports Minister, Musa Mohammed in Abuja on Thursday.
The bone of contention rests with the composition of members of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), where the FIFA’s buff was told that no where in Decree 101 is the Sports Minister vested with the powers to unilaterally name a league management board without inputs from the NFA and club owners.
These facts were disclosed to NewAgeSportsExpress on Thursday by a top CAF committee member who had been contacted by chieftains of CAF wondering why some Nigerians are determined to see that the country is banned by FIFA after escaping the hook that would have caged Nigeria’s football today.
But, the honourable Sports Minister’s Special Adviser on Technical Matters, Salisu Abubakar dismissed that submission to NewAgeSportsExpress on Thursday pointing out that the Sports Minister duly informed president, Sepp Blatter about all the changes being made during his visit to FIFA Opera House headquarters in Zurich.
According to Abubakar: “Whatever the honourable minister is doing at NFA has FIFA’s imprint in black and white and he has followed the script wholesale no matter whose ox is gored. The minister knows his onions and would not take decisions that would lead to any form of sanctions by FIFA against Nigeria.
Strikingly, board members of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) have agreed that it was within the sports minister’s authority to sack the Taiwo Ogunjobi-led management according to the dictates of Sections, 13, 15, 19, sub-sections 1 and 2 in Decree 101.
The NFA members rose from a meeting with the sports minister, Musa Mohammed in Abuja on Thursday and unanimously agreed that since Decree 101 has not been repealed, the minister has the right to sack the association’s management and authorise the removal of government nominees and others from the board adding that: “ Such powers vested in the office of the sports minister remains so until when Decree 101 is abrogated and replaced with new provisions in the new Act of Parliament to be passed by the national assembly.
In fact, the sports minister explained to the NFA board members that the reason why the Interim Management Committee was constituted had to with the fact that the task of midwifeing and conducting election for the main league management committee would take a long time to do adding that: “If the IMC is not constituted now, Nigeria shall end up without a league in the new season.”
They agreed with the sports minister that there was the need to sack the Tiwo Ogunjobi-led management if the game must move forward and allign with what is being practised elsewhere. It was also agreed that the Ogunjobi-led board had to go since it lacked the fiscal and administrative discipline to move the game forward in Nigeria.
•••FIFA’s champagne calls NFA chairman
•••Announcement likely this week
•••As NFA board backpedals, hails sports minister
By Ade Ojeikere
NewAgeSportsExpress can authoritatively reveal today that there are fresh plans to ban Nigeria next week following discussions held between the NFA chairman, Ibrahim Galadima and FIFA’s deputy Secretary General, Jerome Champagne on telephone before the association’s board members met with the honourable Sports Minister, Musa Mohammed in Abuja on Thursday.
The bone of contention rests with the composition of members of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), where the FIFA’s buff was told that no where in Decree 101 is the Sports Minister vested with the powers to unilaterally name a league management board without inputs from the NFA and club owners.
These facts were disclosed to NewAgeSportsExpress on Thursday by a top CAF committee member who had been contacted by chieftains of CAF wondering why some Nigerians are determined to see that the country is banned by FIFA after escaping the hook that would have caged Nigeria’s football today.
But, the honourable Sports Minister’s Special Adviser on Technical Matters, Salisu Abubakar dismissed that submission to NewAgeSportsExpress on Thursday pointing out that the Sports Minister duly informed president, Sepp Blatter about all the changes being made during his visit to FIFA Opera House headquarters in Zurich.
According to Abubakar: “Whatever the honourable minister is doing at NFA has FIFA’s imprint in black and white and he has followed the script wholesale no matter whose ox is gored. The minister knows his onions and would not take decisions that would lead to any form of sanctions by FIFA against Nigeria.
Strikingly, board members of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) have agreed that it was within the sports minister’s authority to sack the Taiwo Ogunjobi-led management according to the dictates of Sections, 13, 15, 19, sub-sections 1 and 2 in Decree 101.
The NFA members rose from a meeting with the sports minister, Musa Mohammed in Abuja on Thursday and unanimously agreed that since Decree 101 has not been repealed, the minister has the right to sack the association’s management and authorise the removal of government nominees and others from the board adding that: “ Such powers vested in the office of the sports minister remains so until when Decree 101 is abrogated and replaced with new provisions in the new Act of Parliament to be passed by the national assembly.
In fact, the sports minister explained to the NFA board members that the reason why the Interim Management Committee was constituted had to with the fact that the task of midwifeing and conducting election for the main league management committee would take a long time to do adding that: “If the IMC is not constituted now, Nigeria shall end up without a league in the new season.”
They agreed with the sports minister that there was the need to sack the Tiwo Ogunjobi-led management if the game must move forward and allign with what is being practised elsewhere. It was also agreed that the Ogunjobi-led board had to go since it lacked the fiscal and administrative discipline to move the game forward in Nigeria.
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In essence, this report confirms what we have been re-iterating that the Minister had the right to sack Ogunjobi and the board members. However thinking about it, since decree 101 has not yet been abrogated, he also had the right to appoint a new interim SG and possibly the League IMC..
I doubt whether Galadima would be foolish enough to invite a FIFA ban on Nigeria...
I doubt whether Galadima would be foolish enough to invite a FIFA ban on Nigeria...
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"Because of Jesus, it's a glorious life...."
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...
. . . when first we practice to deceive!
FIFA mandated (under threat of the ultimate sanction) that Nigeria must REFORM its football administration and get rid of Decree 101 along with its overbearing governmental interference. In a uniquely-Nigerian version of "reform" the government proceeds to rely on the same Decree 101 that the reforms are intended to exorcise to disembowel the NFA -- and is actually (partisanly) being applauded for it!
Nigerians are free to choose between principle and polemics...
But they cannot eat their cake, 'process' it and expect to have it.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! 8)
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What a refreshing new breath of reasoning to start the year.Gotti wrote:
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...
. . . when first we practice to deceive!
FIFA mandated (under threat of the ultimate sanction) that Nigeria must REFORM its football administration and get rid of Decree 101 along with its overbearing governmental interference. In a uniquely-Nigerian version of "reform" the government proceeds to rely on the same Decree 101 that the reforms are intended to exorcise to disembowel the NFA -- and is actually (partisanly) being applauded for it!
Nigerians are free to choose between principle and polemics...
But they cannot eat their cake, 'process' it and expect to have it.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
You've made my Jan 1st a memorable one with above statement
Have you a very prosperous NEW YEAR too.
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