LEAGUE BOARDS ELECTION: Igbokwe Petitions NFF, Electoral Committee On Zoning

Barr.Igbokwe.

The vice chairman of the  Organizing and Disciplinary Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, Barrister.Iyke  Igbokwe has petitioned the Football ruling body in the country and its Electoral Committee to ensure equitable representation of the six geo-political zones in the NFF Executive Committee during the forthcoming election into the  League Boards.

Fiery Igbokwe said “I find it most necessary to personally write you and offer my free patriotic advice on the distribution of the chairmanship positions of the three  remaining League Boards , the Nigeria National League (NNL), the Nigeria Women's Football League (NWFL) and the Nigeria Nation-wide League one (NLO) in the forthcoming League Board Elections in line with Art 33 of the 2010 NFF Statutes which provides for equal distribution of the fifteen (15) NFF Executive Committee positions amongst the Six (6) geopolitical zones of Nigeria. I want to recommend the distribution and zoning formula of the League Board Chairmanship positions that will best give effect to the intents of Art 33 and save our League Boards from post-election crisis as was witnessed in 2011”, he pointed out.

Writing under the headline ‘Advice on the zoning and sharing of the remainder Three League Board Chairmanship elections’, Igbokwe advised that contestants from South-South that produced the NFF President should be barred from the elections.
 
He wrote; “The NFF Electoral Committee should bar candidates from any Zone where the President of NFF comes from contesting any of the League Board Chairmanship positions. This has been the practice from the Sani Lulu and Aminu Maigari NFF Administrations. The Zone of the NFF President has never produced three (3) NFF Executive Committee members. Even in the Aminu Maigari regime, his North East Zone produced just one Executive Committee member which was Aminu Maigari himself. But in the present NFF Board led by Amaju Pinnick as President, his South South Zone has already produced two (2) NFF Board members (Pinnick and Barr. Chris Green)”.
He proffered a formula that will give all the zones a sense of belonging.

“The Electoral Committee should take into serious consideration the fact the following three (3) Zones (South-South, South-West, and North West) produced the top three (3) Board positions in the current NFF Executive Committee and the remaining three (3) Zones ( North-Central, South-East, and North-East) did not produce any of the top three (3) NFF Board positions. It is therefore right, equitable and just that the three (3) named zones that did not produce top NFF Board positions should be allowed to produce the three (3) remaining Chairmen of the League Boards,” he noted.

“The Electoral Committee should remember that the South-East zone now has only one NFF Executive Committee member (Felix Anyansi Agwu). The Electoral Committee decided in Warri during the NFF Board Election on September 30, 2014 that the South-East should have one of the League Board Chairmanship Positions to bring its Executive Committee members to two as provided in Art. 33 of the 2010 NFF Statutes,” Igbokwe concluded.

The eclectoral Committe is composed of: Barr. Samson Ebomhe; Barr. M. T. Ahmed; Mr. Adamu Sani Osmond; Mr. Sadiq Yusuf Zaria; Reverend Onyeaghala Obioma; Eng. Adeola Adelanwa; Alh. Sani Dahiru Yakassai; Mrs Sarah Jumoke Adebisi and Barr. Awwal Abdullahi. The secretary is Dr, Mohammed Sanusi, NFF’s General Secretary.