Northern Football Federation (NFF)

Maigari...leads a northern cabal

Ask an average Nigerian what is the full meaning of the NFF, they are wont to tell you it is Nigeria Football Federation. Haba! You miss am if that is your answer too. Rather, it is Northern Football Federation (NFF). How? See the table below to appreciate what I mean.

The management of the NFF (whichever one you choose) is north. This is a direct affront on the Federal character principle. Before that, there is absolute criminality and illegality of the highest order therein. For how many years is the sitting Acting Secretary General, Musa Amadu, acting? His tenure was extended by the current Board which was to lapse after six months of the tenure of the Board but they kept mute and drove on as if all things are normal.

SN	CANDIDATE	POSITION	STATE	REGION
1.	Aminu Maigari	President	Bauchi	North
2.	Musa Amadu	Acting Sec Gen	Katsina	North
3.	Dr. Mohammed Sanusi	Head, Competition	Sokoto	North
4.	Ibrahim Abubakar	Head, Protocol	Kaduna	North
5.	Idris Adama	Head, Marketing	Kogi	North
6.	Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme		Cross River	South-south
7.	Mallam Mamza	Head of Administration	Bauchi	North

Were this setting to have been the case with other regions of the country, they would have protested to high heavens to have their quota on board. This discovery have shocked a lot of respected Nigerians we confronted with the facts.

As usual, because many of them don’t want to be counted on such controversial issues like this, since they have a way of living on patronages from these same people, they offered not to talk. Ironically, some people said it openly that they know but resigned to fate because if they talk, what difference would it make?

So, please when next you are communicating and you hear the acronym, NFF, ask which one: Nigeria Football Federation or the Northern Football Federation. They mean the same thing.