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August 25, 2014

NFF: Abuja to host congress

NFF: Abuja to host congress

BEFORE THE CRACK: Dr. Rafiu Ladipo (m) raises the hands of Chief Mike Umeh (l) and Aminu Maigari after their election in 2010.

The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja is the official host of the 2014 General Congress of the Nigeria Football Federation which holds tomorrow. After a meeting with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Dr Anyim Pius Anyim, both parties  agreed to settle for Abuja as host for the congress.

The parties also agreed to hold the election into the Executive Board of the NFF in Warri in a fortnight in accordance with a two-week extension approved by FIFA

However the President General of Nigerian football Supporters Club, Dr Rafiu Ladipo has called on the Electoral committee conducting elections into various offices of the Nigeria Football Federation to ensure a level field for every candidate in tomorrow’s election in Abuja.

Ladipo who bemoaned that Nigerian football was suffering at the instance of the gladiators fighting for elective positions however urged the Chairman of the Electoral committee, Amoni Biambo to conduct a credible, free and fair elections devoid of exclusion.
‘’The Electoral Committee should make the elections free and fair and ensure that all Nigerians with the requisite qualific

ations are allowed to contest. This is not the time to ban and exclude some persons from the elections. Give everybody equal opportunity so that we have better chances of having people who will put Nigerian football on the right pedestal’’, Ladipo charged on our hotline yesterday.

‘’Nigerian football remains a big brand in Africa and the world. We should conduct a free and fair election that will announce to the world that we mean business’’, he said.

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