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The Nigeria Football Federation secretariat at Wuse, Abuja was sealed off by a team of policemen on Monday.
The policemen from Wuse Divisional Police Station chased out the
workers, locked the secretariat and barred people from the building.
According to Punch, about seven armed police officers are keeping vigil in front of the building.
An NFF worker who was hanging around the premises revealed that, “We
were carrying out our duties when the policemen stormed the building
and asked everyone to vacate the premises. All the workers moved out of
the building and the police blocked the entrance and armed officers took
over everywhere.”
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Anjuguri Manzah, confirmed the deployment of policemen in the NFF, saying “we are only doing our duty of preserving law and order.”
Findings indicate that the police action may not be unconnected
with the power tussle between the sacked NFF President, Amaju Pinnick
and his rival, Chris Giwa.
Pinnick was sacked from office
by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos last Friday after granting the
prayers of Yahaya Adama and Senator Obinna Ogba, to relist a suit which
among other things had sought to nullify the Warri General Assembly and
the subsequent elective congress that turned in Pinnick as NFF
President.
Justice Musa Kurya in delivering his ruling on the matter went
ahead to also sustain all the previous orders of the court, effectively
making Giwa the head of the federation until the final determination of
the suit.
By the orders of the court, the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalong
is compelled to recognise the Giwa-led board of the NFF by law.
The order also barred anybody from interfering with the duties and functions of the NFF board under Giwa’s leadership.
The court, by the ruling, effectively set aside all the proceedings
and decisions of the Warri Extra Ordinary meeting of the September 20,
2014 and the Elective Congress of September 30, 2014 which elected
Pinnick as President of the NFF.
Pinnick, however has said he would appeal against the high court judgement.
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