The group of Club Owners have faulted the composition of the NFF board after a meeting with the NSC boss in Abuja on Tuesday
Sports minister Tammy Danagogo has faulted football administrators’ lack of savvy for the many woes confronting Nigerian football.
Danagogo said this at a meeting with Club Owners led by their Barrister Danladi Isaac in his office in Abuja where they lodged complains of not being carried along in proceedings by the Nigeria Football Federation.
The Club Owners also claimed that lack of respect of statutes for political and selfish reasons is responsible for mistrust amongst the football stakeholders in the country.
“All the issues in our football are centred on management. I am actually aware of most of the issues you have raised. The issue of LMC, you not being represented in the NFF board and so on,” said Danagogo.
“I have severally tried to solve them privately. I believe that the way to work together and harmoniously is to privately try as much as you can to dialogue. Always seek peaceful means of dialogue rather than resorting to media accusations and counter-accusations. That is what causes most of the problem we are having. I am assuring you that we will certainly look into all these issues and resolve them,” he said.
Danladi earlier on complained that the clubs, who are the bedrock of the country’s football, have been disenfranchised from voting in federation elections and congress decision and also denied of managing their own affairs by allowing a privately-owned company to run the league.
The Club Owners then urged the Minister to ensure the NFF and various stakeholders abide by the provisions of the statutes as sanctioned by Fifa and adhere strictly to Fifa’s electoral code in the general conduct of elections into the various boards of the federations and affiliated leagues.
“The NFF board as present is not properly constituted. The board has no second vice president and premier league board is completely absent (rather a privately owned company is managing our league which is contrary to the provisions of Fifa and NFF statutes.
“Clubs have not been allowed to set-up their own electoral committee to elect the league board and manage the league as allowed in the Fifa standard electoral code as well as the statutes,” Danladi said.
