The affidavit that killed the NFF

 The NFF may have created enough grounds to nail itself with an affidavit in support of motion sworn to in a suit at the Federal High Court Lagos with suit number FHC/L/CS/962/2010 where they spurned the relationship with the NFA.

“Sadly, the same confused NFA went ahead to in a release on Friday claim they are the same as the NFA whereas they have forgotten the content of what they swore to in a law court,” said Chikelue Iloenyosi, a member of the new NFA board.

The affidavit was based on the facts provided by Barrister Musa Amadu, the acting secretary general of the NFF. It was sworn to on the 2^nd February 2011 before the Commissioner for Oaths, S. J. Ubaha.

In the affidavit’s sixth deposition, Amadu asserted that, “the revenue of the NFF is generated from private sources and investments and may also receive grant-in-aid from the government of Nigeria.” This means all the appropriations from the National Assembly are grant-in-aid, and by interpretation, they are not liable to account for how same was spent.

In the eighth deposition, he said, “there was a Nigerian Football Association governing board constituted by Decree 101 which included among others, one person representing the Armed forces of the federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Association of Physical and health education and recreation, four Nigerians to be appointed on merit by the minister.” This means the NFA does no more exist.

By the deposition of paragraph nine, Amadu said, “the said Nigerian Football Association governing board is not in existence today”. This further restated that the NFA is moribund and dead.

By the tenth deposition of Amadu, “the Governing Board of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is significantly different in composition from the Nigeria Football Association as shown above and members of the board of NFF are constituted through election and not by appointment whereas members of the Governing Board of the defunct Nigeria Football Association (NFA) were appointed”

The NFF asserted and agreed by and with itself that the NFA is defunct. How come a defunct body is adopted as same as the NFF in its press statement. This also gives credence to the fact that the minister’s statement disowning Tenebe’s NFA is not guided by the reality of the depositions of the NFF in court.

CAVEAT:

1.        Some sources inside the House of Sodom, the Glass House, revealed to me that I was banned for life from covering football in Nigeria because I have been reporting untruths about the NFF. As it is usual, this is one of the untruths with material evidence.

Every detail I have reported about them since they illegally occupied the Glass House are evidence based. My reports wherever they are published have been unsettling to them. Can someone ask them, is it the job of the NFF to ban a journalist who is not friendly? Do they have the powers? If they do this successfully, then, every reporter who writes what they do not   like surely will be banned until there will not be a reporter.

2.       I can also reveal that since they decided to spurn the Act of parliament, the natural reasonable but logical option is to have registered the name “Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)” with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). They did not. A private individual had only last Friday registered the name! so why is the legal basis of the NFF? See why I oft call them illegal and that is exactly what they are.