Umeh to FIFA: Maigari has resigned

The Acting President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Mike Umeh, has called on sections of the Nigerian media to stop misinterpreting a letter from world football governing body, FIFA, which was received on Thursday.
The letter from FIFA said that removed Chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, should be the one to oversee the upcoming election into the Board of the Nigeria Football Federation.
Umeh said the letter, which has been interpreted by the media to mean the restoration of Maigari to his position, was far from being so.
He said apart from his removal by the majority of the Board, Maigari has also resigned his position.
Umeh declared: “I want to use this opportunity to urge the media to refrain from misinterpreting the letter from FIFA. As a body, the Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation has gone through the letter and noted the contents.
“We have noted, among others, the section in which FIFA talked about restoring the electoral committee and the electoral appeals committee, and the advice that we allow Alhaji Aminu Maigari to preside over the coming elective Congress of 26th August, 2014.
“We will sit down and deliberate on everything and will come out with our position. FIFA officials are themselves aware that Alhaji Maigari has resigned his position and it will be the discretion of the Executive Committee to now invite him to the elective Congress. An elective Congress is never really presided over by anyone.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Alhaji Maigari tendered his resignation letter on 12th August, 2014.”
Umeh insisted that the NFF Executive Committee has abided by the provisions of the NFF Statutes, as approved by FIFA, in all its actions in the past few weeks.