I had since some days been pondering and trying to
understand what politics or game is going on between the National Sports
Commission (NSC) and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Why I am not
shocked is obvious.
In my last story on how the NFF board has perfected
its plans to perpetuate itself for another four years, one of the anointed
fellars said, “we have the government behind us firmly.” Now, I can understand
the link.
See the two letter attached. The NSC directed the
Nigeria Football Association to suspend the Nigeria Premier League (NPL). This
is in order given the circumstances on ground. What they forgot to do was to
sweep away the board of the NPL.
The first error is, the letter was addressed to the
NFA and not the NFF. The writer of the letter must have been mischievous or
what? The reference letter is NSC/FEAD/NFF/GM/020/CON/97. What a grand
confusion. The addressee and the reference does not tally.
When the letter was received, it was received by a
person unknown to the letter, the NFF. See the acknowledgement stamp.
Going through paragraph 3 of the said letter. By
interpretation, the NFA was to resolve the issues identified within one month
and report to the NSC. Yet, we read in the papers yesterday that the Minister
is setting up a committee to do what he directed the NFA (which in reality does
not exist on the ground) to do.
That which exist on ground, the NFF, is not only illegal but is not in
the picture of that letter.
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