FIFA TO SNUB NIGERIA DELEGATION. 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. 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 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.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 05:36:06 +0000
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