A member of CAF decision making body says the senior national team of Nigeria will be disqualified from the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire if news about the sacking of the board of NFF by a court is true, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
According to a Nigerian online site Insideglasshouse.com, An Appeal Court panel led by Justice Barika together with Justices Okon Abang and Justice Banjoko sacked the NFF Executive Committee led by Ibrahim Gisau by setting aside and striking out all dubious orders obtained by deceit on September 29, 2022, to conduct the purported NFF illegal election of September 30 in Benin City.
The court struck out all processes concerning the NFF appeal No CA/ABJ/CV/1006/2022 and further ordered that the processes be deleted from all systems of the court forthwith.
Parties in the matter were represented by the following counsels-NFF by Chief Okutepa SAN represented by Peace Omiri and Barrister Arnold from his chambers, while PFAN Task Force was represented by Dr.Celsus Ukpong, Chief Rumson Baribote and Mary Waribo.
The judgement was said to have been passed two days ago and it says all executive board members of the football body led by President Ibrahim Musa Gusau will cease to function in their present capacity after the AFCON.
” Mowiz I saw the link shared on that group on a judgement sacking the NFF board. That amounts to third party interference and saying no action will be taken till after the AFCON isn’t in the power of any one. CAF can decide to throw the Super Eagles out and nothing will happen”, a member of a committee in CAF told OwnGoalNigeria.com‘s editor in chief.
Meanwhile, a board member of the NFF termed the issue as null and void saying it has nothing to do with the legality of the board, rather some aggrieved parties feeding lies to the court in search of relevance.
He said this isn’t the first time something like this has been said of an existing board of the NFF and it won’t be the last before this tenure elapses.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
