GLOBACOM IS SIGNING AN EMPTY CONTRACT - TENEBE

Dr Pat Ekeji...NSC boss

* CONGRATULATES OWUMI

The leadership of the interim board of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) led by Mr. Jarret Tenebe has warned the Globacom Nigeria Limited to be aware, at their own risk, that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that they claimed they are signing a N1.8billion contract is a non juristic body that is as empty as the void air before them.

Speaking in a reaction to the much publicized contract for the various national teams and the Federation Cup, Mr Tenebe in a telephone interview from his Abuja base today said, “it is at their own risk to sign the contract. All my own end of the football divide are aware is the NFF, as it is constituted today is a void. They are non-juristic. They cannot be sued neither can they sue.”

According to the light complexioned Auchi born ex-soldier, “let the Globacom people ask them to provide any evidence of their legal status. The NFF is not registered anywhere. It is fraud if they enter into any form of contract in the name of Nigerian football. They cannot use the Act of Parliament that set up the NFA by their 2^nd February affidavit. They are not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and neither can they be registered.”

“It is these issues as we have researched and compiled that led us to take them to the EFCC which are being investigated. These guys cannot and should ordinarily not enter into any form of contract on behalf of Nigerian football. Anybody or organisation that does business with them without conducting background checks on them does so at their own risk. My advise is for Globacom like any other company to ask questions lest they leap into void.”

In the same vein, he congratulated the Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), Mr. Davidson Owumi for his legendary victory at the Federal High Court in Abuja which legalized his return to office as our board earlier decided. The truth has no other name. Owumi’s case is one that has shown that our board’s earlier decision to order him to return is fair, correct and just.