Like we exclusively reported yesterday, the chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko has confirmed that FIFA has barred members of the soon to be setup normalisation committee members from contesting in the substantive election.
Dikko made the confirmation in an interview on Channels Television, while speaking on the football reforms the president has ordered following the resignation of the Ibrahim Musa Gusau led board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Top officials of the NSC met with FIFA at their headquarters in Zurich to brief them on the proposed reforms of the NFF, following the resignation of members of the Ibrahim Musa Gusau led board including its General Secretary Dr. Mohammed Sanusi.
FIFA approved the reforms but insisted on certain conditions to be include before the election of substantive members of the NFF. The interim arrangement with the committee is to run for around six months to one year.
The head of the committee and other members will be nominated by the NSC but sent to FIFA for integrity test, and FIFA will be responsible for their welfare for the period they will last.
Furthermore FIFA made it clear that anyone in the committee will not be eligible to contest in the election of substantive board members of the NFF. A situation that has made some persons to withdraw their intentions for the chairmanship position.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
