Baribote blames Abdulahi, Maigari for football woes

Football critic and former Chairman of the Nigeria Professional Football League, Chief Runsom Baribote, has taken a swipe at former Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Bolaji Abdullahi, and erstwhile President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari.
Baribote said they were the architects of the crisis that has beclouded Nigeria’s football in the last two years.
The Nembe FC of Bayelsa boss says the duo concocted the League Management Company without an enabling law to back it so as to fraudulently benefit from the Nigerian league even when they were removed from office.
Speaking on the backdrop of the recent partnership deal between the LMC and Star Larger, Baribote saidthe LMC refused to disclose the value of the deal so as to continue to swindle the clubs in the league.
“I have said it for the umpteenth time that LMC is fraudulently concocted by Bolaji and Maigari after I was illegally removed from office as NPFL chairman,” Baribote said. “Abdulahi and Maigari are still benefiting from the LMC. That is why they can’t account for all the sponsorship deals they have entered into.
“LMC is illegal and until they address the injustice they have done to me, there can never be peace in Nigeria football. There is no way the NFF and LMC can get it right. They are cursed and they will continue to make one mistake after the other. Do they really need a soothsayer to tell them that the game is up after all these catalogues of failures? Baribote added that the club chairmen in 2013 declared the LMC illegal through a letter to the NFF Congress in Warri but today Shehu Dikko has settled all of these so-called club managers and they are singing another tune. “But that does not make LMC a legal entity.”
Baribote specifically accused Abdulahi and Maigari of attempting to corner the broadcast rights of the Nigerian league through the back door with their romance with SuperSport saying that sooner than later, the hands of the law will catch up with them as he is ready to revealed all that transpired between the South African satellite television outfit and the LMC to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission.