Some aggrieved members of the Nasarawa State Football Association have called on the Nigeria Football Federation to intervene in the ongoing crisis rocking the state’s chapter.
Ibrahim Shigafarta, one of the contestants for a position on the state’s FA board, made the call on behalf of other aggrieved contestants in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lafia.
NAN reports that the aggrieved persons had on January 20, kicked against the composition of the FA electoral committee ahead of the election scheduled to hold on February 15.
Shigafarta, in a protest letter, claimed that the membership of certain individuals in the electoral committee was “a gross violation of fairness, justice and due process in the electoral process”.
He added that the current secretary of the FA board, Abdulhamid Babanrabi should not be a member of the electoral committee.
He also alleged that the committee refused to make public the names of the delegates less than three weeks to the election to enable the contestants reach out to them.
He, therefore, called on the NFF to intervene urgently in order to save the “family” from avoidable crisis.
In a reaction to the allegation, Mohammed Alkali, the Nasarawa FA Chairman told NAN that everything about the upcoming election was being done in line with the law guiding football administration in the country.
He said: “Babanrabi was appointed as a member and secretary of the Electoral Committee as stipulated by the NFF statutes.”
Aggrieved members urge NFF to intervene in Naarawa FA crisis
