Mountain of Fire Ministries Football Club of Lagos were allegedly attacked on Sunday in Aba at the Stadium during the Matchday 35 fixture of the ongoing Nigeria Professional Football League, by Felix Anyasi, the Chairman of Enyimba International FC.
The encounter between the two teams was allegedly marred by assault on the away team in the course of play.
It, however, ended in a 2-1 win for the home team, courtesy of goals from Enyimba duo of Tosin Omoyele and Anthony Omaka, with Oladayo Alabi scoring MFM’s clinical goal.
The Nigeria Football Federation Executive Member, who doubles as the Chairman of Enyimba International and the club officials allegedly assaulted MFM FC Football Director, Davidson Adejuwon, and the team’s goalkeeper, Jerry Isaac.
“I was assaulted by Enyimba officials yesterday, who pushed me in the chest in the presence of Chief Anyasi, who could not but joined his men to harass me in the presence of my welfare officer, while I was attempting to address my players before the match,” claimed the Director of Football, MFM FC.
Adejuwon added: “The attack from Chief Anyasi against my person continued as he return to his seat.
“All these I faced at Enyimba because I raised the issue of 30 per cent fan capacity and ticket sales, which was never communicated to other clubs, particularly MFMFC.
“The Match Officials were put under all sorts of pressure by Chief Anyasi and his body guards to favour Enyimba, which they eventually did and I won’t blame them.
“Chief Anyasi personally held and harassed the 4th Match Official, along with his body guards from raising the four additional minutes as instructed by the Center Referee.
“Chief Anyansi and his goons successfully took full two additional minutes after the regulated 90 minutes and forced the CR to abandon the game, and succumbed to his pressure before they allowed the fourth official to raise the additional time, which was eventually changed to five minutes, plus the two minutes they took while the fourth official was being held to ransom.
“Anyasi violently forced the match that should ordinarily ended at 94 minutes to 98 minutes (with palpable fear on the face of the Referees) till they got their second goal.”
Adejuwon called on the League Management Company and NFF Disciplinary Committee to look into this matter, saying such act is capable of destroying the beautiful game of football in Nigeria.
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