There is doubt whether or not the scheduled Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Elective Congress slated to hold on Friday, 30th September, 2022 in Benin City, Edo State will go on as planned
This was even after the 11 aspirants vying for the federation’s number one position dialogued on the way forward with the Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, on Tuesday evening in his office at the Moshood Abiola Stadium Abuja.
The Federal High Court Abuja in an ex-parte order stopped the scheduled NFF Elective Congress in Benin City Edo State on 30th September, 2022 pending the hearing of the case in October.
One of the contestants for NFF Presidency who doubles as FCT FA Chairman, Mouktar Mohammed when speaking with journalists stated that they will respect the court order stopping the federation from holding the Elective Congress on Friday. He added that the process to vacate the court order has started.
“It is a meeting of stakeholders with the Minister of Sports. The Minister is the leader of Sports in Nigeria and we oblige the meeting to have a dialogue regarding issues on ground.
“There are some decisions that we expect the Electoral Committee to look at that have to do with advise from security agencies. Of course, there is a court order, we all know. We are all law abiding citizens and so we will see to it. In the coming days, the court order can be vacated but as law abiding citizens we will follow what court said. It is an ongoing discussion. There is no conclusion yet. In the next few days we will hear more. We hope that at the end of the day, there would be a credible process acceptable to everyone for football to begin to flourish again
NFF First Vice-president, Seyi Akinwunmi said that each contestant will continue to campaign ahead of the election despite the court order. Hoping that the election can still hold “We just had discussion as to where we are heading to in Nigeria football. It was a succesful deliberation and there is nothing that makes anyone frown. Nothing controversial beyond the fact that we are all going back to continue our campaign ahead of the election.”
However, if the court order is vacated before Friday, the NFF Elective Congress will go on as scheduled.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
