Nduka Irabor: Looking into the mirror

Are these moves for their good or selfish interests?

Legendary television epic, ‘Mirror in the sun’ reminds one of the shenanigans of providing food for the hungry boys. Were this to be a military parlance it would have been ‘jobs for the boys’.

Searching for the ways out of the quagmire of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) and making it come out better is one strand that has tied virtually all interested and good people who have a stake in the NPL together.

The seminar that was supposed to hold in Kano which was spiked because of funds is such that the Nduka Irabor interim management committee (IMC) is looking itself in the mirror and says to herself, ‘I am beautiful’.

How on earth are you organizing a seminar for club owners and two members of the IMC, Salihu Abubakar and Shehu Dikko, on one hand, and a staff of the NPL, are the resource persons.

Does this show the quality of what to expect from the Nduka Irabor-led IMC? Is it vain-glorification we are in here for? If this is an omen, we can start to sing the nunc dimitis and say to ourselves, hope does not live here.

Independent sources told this reporter that former Executive Secretary of the NPL, Salihu Abubakar, who after he left the secretariat practically had nothing serious to do, has taken over the management of the NPL secretariat from his acolyte, Tunji Babalola. Please can someone ask, is the IMC a means of creating jobs for some people?

Some people have secured a plan to make northerners take a place of pride because in the history of modern Nigerian football, “we are born to manage Nigerian football”. To them, anytime a northerner does not manage the Secretariat of the NPL, there has always been a crisis so the north must take over what is theirs. No wonder, Salihu Abubakar, is trying to take what is theirs quickly. Welcome, IMC Director and Super Executive Secretary! Please let no one ask if this is why they were appointed to do on the IMC.