NFA ELECTIONS: NIGERIAN JUDICIARY RAPED IN THE MARKET PLACE

With the emergence of Alhaji Aminu Maigari as the new helmsman of Nigerian football coupled with the quality of board members the process has tossed up, moreso, given the processes and issues that led to the election I am hastily concluding that the setting is ironic, laughable, comical and pitiable. The saddest footnote is the way the Nigerian judiciary is treated like a virgin that was raped in the open glare of the sun right inside the crowded African market.
In functional climes and saner politics, President Goodluck Jonathan and his men would have used the developments in our football to convince the Nigerian people that she is fit to rationally give hope to a better future. However, the portends are clear, this is a government of CASH AND CARRY. Like the street sobriquet in Lagos, ‘carry go’.

BABATUNDE AREMU:
Their thinking, action and consequent decision fuelled the “rumours” (they remain so since its not provable) that the “Godfather of the Godfathers” of Nigerian football (Babatunde Aremu) had penetrated the healthy pores of government and ravaged it beyond care with his magic wand of being able to buy the personages. In his world, everyman has a price.
It is obvious that Goodluck Jonathan’s government unlike the Umar Musa Yar’Adua government does not, did not and may not be a true continuum as they make us believe. The Rule of Law mantra which Umar Musa Yar’Adua government respected, ensured was respected, was sacrosanct, and protected jealously (more than he did Turai, his wife) is defiled and left in the pool of her blood after the rape.
Three courts in the land heard aggrieved members of the Nigerian football family who feel frustration about how a cabal had used FIFA to make a private property. The courts gave out injunctions that the election should not hold. A lawyer and chairman of the Electoral Committee, Hakeem Mustapha, in the rape process held the leg of the virgin wide enough for the rapist to conduct his wicked act. He not only aided and abetted the rape and midwived Nigeria’s worst election.
For the NFA and the Electoral Committee set up by Sani Lulu to have delivered all of Lulu’s candidates successfully in the election, then it was a ‘success’. How else can you describe same? The NFA and the Electoral Committee submitted their jurisdictions and had representations in the Lagos Court. The court ruled and gave injunctions. They chose to disobey that court. They held the elections. They sent coded message to the judge: ‘you are a toothless bulldog. Do your worst.’
I will refuse to make comments on the issues Harrison Jalla took to the Lagos court nor on the matters Segun Odegbami in a brilliant manner took to the Court of Arbitration in Sports (CAS) in Lousanne-Switzerland. I do not want to be subjudice.

MORAL DEFICIT:
It is a moral deficit that Taiwo Ogunjobi who was impeached alongside Sani Lulu and Amanze Uchegbulam by the NFF less than 60 days ago could find a very shameless way back to Nigerian footbrawl (or how else do I describe it?). he organised a forced exit of the Ogun State FA chairman, Architect Bolu to “voluntarily” resign as the zonal coordinator and the lot to lead was mounted on Ogunjobi “unanimously”. He participated as a delegate in the election!
This same Ogunjobi had been tipped to take the place of Davidson Owumi as the chairman of the Nigerian Premier League (NPL). He denied it when I exposed the plot. There is a fresh campaign launched since two days after the sham election of Maigari to unseat Owumi. Ironically, Owumi’s election is saner and cleaner. It was popular like June 12. It was within the rules but Lulu’s men are not safe with Owumi thus, the manufactured new processes to unseat him. A less intellectually endowed deficit will most likely be programmed to go and preside the NPL.
This same Ogunjobi who was dismissed in the Oyo State civil service vide a letter personally signed by the military administrator, Colonel Ahmed Usman, on the strength of financial misappropriation and fraud was smuggled by Babatunde Aremu to become the Secretary General of the NFA for four years and made to enjoy another four years as a board member of the NFA. We wait. We will ask how Colonel Dogo Joro Yabilsu died in the circumstances he died. Yabilsu died mysteriously for being chairman of a committee that investigated and found the same Ogunjobi guilty. His death came before the report will become public and ever since, the report lives in the ledges courtesy a cover up from the Godfather of the Godfathers and Sani Lulu.
Another dimension to the assault on our national integrity is that the House of Representatives, like the Senate, were emphatic that the election be delayed to permit a total reform. For once, these institutions stood on the side of honour and the people, just as the courts have done in support of logic and reason. The cabal, protected by the “Godfather of the Godfathers” brought the weight of CAF and FIFA, to supervise the rape of our football and our judiciary.

THE VICTIMS:
All those who participated in the impeachment of Sani Abdullahi Lulu, the erstwhile President of the NFF and his ‘brothers’ in Taiwo Ogunjobi and Amanze Uchegbulam, were programmed out of the “election”. The only present survivor, Princess Bola Jegede, is according to a pro-Lulu friend who I eavesdropped at the venue of the election said: “will be forced out through the same window that Davidson Owumi (chairman of the Nigeria Premier League) will be thrown out.”
Ask please. Mutiu “Headmaster” Adepoju, Austin “Jay-Jay” Okocha, Christian “Chairman” Chukwu, Segun “Mathematical” Odegbami, incumbent Dominic “The Gazelle” Iorfa, all lost out in the election that has to do with football. What a global record?
In the same election, an Aminu Maigari who does not know the number of teams playing the Nigerian league and who probably, by extension, does not know the teams playing in the 2010 African Champions League was helped to dust the likes of Lumumbah Dah Adeh, Sani Ahmed Toro, Shehu Dikko the three brightest stars in the election) with widest imaginable margins.

CRITICAL THINKING:
This is the tenth wonder of the world! These are only feasible and possible in the Nigeria presided over by Goodluck Ebere Jonathan. One thought that a government presided over by Nigeria’s second graduate after Umar Musa Yar’Adua by two graduates (in tow is a Vice President who is an Architect, Namadi Sambo) and by a head, Jonathan, who has a Ph.D (not the honorary causa many people who have it today that my granny, madam Alice Bolajoko Alasi will call “inastrate” a euphemism for illiterates). The point I am driving out here is, critical thinking is not a function of government or and our governance structure.
“Nigerians are idiots.” That is the import of the final result of that election. The illogical passage of the Federal Government through the Presidency gave the cabal underlined the insult. The President’s advisory staff having been fingered must have led him to show us how those that lead us think.
Gathered that sports minister, Ibrahim Isa Bio, from Kwara State, was meant to spited. He was allegedly linked to the governor of his state, Dr. Bukola Saraki who is not on the same page with Goodluck Jonathan. Saraki is touted to be eyeing Jonathan’s seat. Thus, the propaganda was Bio was trying to use the NFF election to drum strategic gains for Saraki at the expense of Jonathan. When Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, tried to see the President on the matter, the advisory staff made sure he died on the anvil before he would be welcomed.

SUMMARY:
Welcome Aminu Maigari. I wish you and your team four loooooooong years of remote control from Sani Lulu’s room. Hope his sons, wives, concubines, cronies and recharge card sellers who will people the NFA will successfully take our football to the nadir. Congratulations. May Allah guide you.