NFF president, Pinnick Amaju
The world football governing body, FIFA, has upheld the election of the Amaju Pinick-led board of the Nigeria Football Federation. The decision of FIFA follows the submission of the NFF Electoral Appeals Committee made available to the Zurich-based international body at the close of last week.
The position of FIFA on the September 2014 election held in Warri was conveyed in a letter sent to the General Secretary of the NFF, Musa Amadu, dated December 9, 2014.
The FIFA letter read, “We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 8 December 2014 including details of the ruling of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Electoral Appeals Committee.
“We note the majority decision of the Electoral Appeals Committee to uphold in their entirety the results of the NFF Electoral Congress held in Warri on 30 September 2014.
“We are therefore pleased to be able to start working with the new office-bearers headed by the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick. We will contact you in the coming days to organise an introductory meeting between Mr. Pinnick and the FIFA President in Zurich.”
The letter, which was signed by the FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke, was copied to the Confederation of African Football.
The NFF appeals committee raised fresh dust within the troubled Nigerian football troubled system last week when two different reports were released at the close of their sitting. The committee, which has five members, produced the first report which was attested to by four of the members. Their report upheld in entirety the results of the elections held in Warri. Their reports was followed the following day by a minority report written by their chairman, Okey Ajunwa, which nullified some of the results including that of the NFF president, Pinnick.
The PUNCH confirmed that both reports got to FIFA of which the body then ruled and sent the letter upholding the election to the NFF secretary.
The FIFA letter has thus ended a lot of theories propounded over the appeals committee reports. Some followers of the Nigerian football crises had determined that FIFA would set up a fresh committee to harmonise the report and then conduct a fresh election. Others added that the country could face another ban from FIFA. But while the country awaited the FIFA report, the officials of the Ministry of Sports stated that they would work with the majority report of the committee. The same position was also taken by some members of the National Assembly who spoke on the issue last week
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