Sunshine wants 3SC, Lam Adesina punished

The management of Ondo State Football Agency, the supervising body of Sunshine Stars of Akure, has called on the League Management Company to impose stiffer sanctions on Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan and the Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Dapo Lam Adesina, for bringing the game into disrepute.
In a statement signed by Adewumi Johnson, the Public Relations Officer of OSFA, Sunshine said the management of 3SC and the sports commissioner should be held responsible for the aborted Week 30 match at the Akure Township Stadium, stressing that their game plan was to cause confusion with the intention of benefiting from free points.
According to Johnson, if Adeshina had no ulterior motive, he would have announced his presence at the stadium so that he could be accorded a VIP status and made to seat with his colleagues at the VIP stand.
The statement said: “If the commissioner hadn’t an ulterior motive, he shouldn’t have sat where he was seated in the first instance. Even at that, when his player, Gbolahan Salami, went to our bench after their goal, fighting with our team manager, what did he do to stop him?”
The OSFA media man added that Sunshine Stars ought to have protested the choice of match commissioner, being a former player of 3SC but because they were confident of victory, they did not.
Johnson added: “We should be the one to complain because the Match Commissioner, Patrick Pascal, was a former player of 3SC but we didn’t. At the pre-match meeting, there was no indication that the match commissioner was coming for the match. We have drawn three matches at home and nobody was molested, so why 3SC, which we are leading?
“We hear they have been boasting that the NFF organizing and disciplinary committee chairman, Leye Adepoju, and Tunde Aderibigbe, a member of the committee, are from Oyo State, that even the Commissioner boasted that the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, is his father’s boy and together, they will work to 3SC’s favour.
“It’s clear that they deliberately caused problem because they have big men in the corridor of power. But we have the rules, we don’t exploit our top people in government and we are calling on the LMC to apply the rule to the letter.”