Nigeria Football Predicament: FIFA Orders Aminu Maigari Re-Instatement With Immediate Effect.
Embattled Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF), President Aminu Maigari who was impeached recently may have find reprieve as the world football governing body. FIFA ordered the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to reinstate Aminu Maigari with immediate effect, while it also gave directive to the August 26 NFF election to take place on the said date.
According to the letter signed by FIFA’s Deputy Secretary-General Markus Kattner, the world Football Governing body and addressed to NFF Secretary-General Musa Amadu said Maigari’s impeachment by some members of the Executive Committee of the NFF did not follow due process and was not ratified by the Congress of the NFF,.
“We take note of your explanation with regards to the meeting of the NFF held on 24 July and it would appear that the said meeting didn’t comply with some statutory provisions (e.g. deadline for the convocation of the meeting and for the sending of the Agenda). In addition, in a correspondence addressed to FIFA, Mr. Maigari denied the course of events and complained that he had even not been given the possibility to answer the allegations against him.
“We have also been informed that members of the NFF Executive committee decided to sanction two other Executive Committee members for six months and one year. By so doing, it seems the said meeting of the Executive Committee went beyond the prerogative which is limited to suspend provisionally, persons or organs, until the following Congress, during which the sanctions are confirmed or lifted. Finally, we also learnt that some members of the electoral committee and electoral appeal committee duly elected by the Congress in November 2013, were removed from their position by the Executive Committee, which is contrary to the segregation of powers.
“The recent decisions of the Executive Committee are highly questionable with regard to the compliance with the statutes and should anyway be confirmed by the Congress. In the meantime, the different sanctions and suspensions are preventing persons to contest the elections.
“Under these circumstances, we deem that the NFF Congress will exercise its sovereign power through the electoral process, which shall be open to everybody and managed by the electoral committee elected by the Congress in their entirety. The Executive Committee of the NFF shall also be reunified as it was before the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Taking into account the internal divisions in the Executive Committee, it is advisable that major decisions are frozen until the elections of 26 August and that the focus will now be on the program of the candidates and the development of Nigerian football”.
Nigerian Government through the Youth and Sports Ministry, has further endorsed the candidature of NFF President Amaju Pinnick for a seat on the Executive Committee of Confederation of African Football, at the polls scheduled for next month’s Congress in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At a meeting convened by Youth and Sports…
