NFF CRISIS: Giwa’s board storms Glass House

Another round of crisis is set to envelope Nigerian football as the Chris Giwa led group yesterday signaled its intention to storm the NFF Glass House on january 15 for a board meeting.

The group in a release made available to Daily Sunsports said the board was doing so following the failure of the Pinnick Amaju led board to set up an arbitration panel to look into the protest filed by Barrister Iyke Igbokwe.

Adama insisted that the NFF board should have set up the arbitration tribunal in line with Articles 68 and 69 of the 2010 NFF statutes, even as he accused the Amaju board of not being in­terested in the peaceful resolution of the NFF crisis.

The release stated in part: “With this show of recklessness and crass violation of the NFF statutes, it is without any iota of doubt that the Amaju Pinnick factional board does not want peaceful resolution to the issues. Having exhausted all available internal mechanisms for ami­cable settlement of the logjam, our board (Giwa’s board) has resolved that we shall hold our regular board meeting on the 15th January, 2015 at the Glass House to fashion our plans and programmes to reposition our football and get us back on track.”

It would be noted that the NFF board had at its meeting in Lagos last week rejected the request by Barrister Igbokwe for the setting up of an arbitration tribunal. Igbokwe was insisting on the an­nulment of the Warri election that brought in Amaju. Igbokwe had last December taken his case to FIFA, but the world soccer gov­erning body, stated that they wont look into his protest since it is an internal matter which falls under the ambit of NFF to handle.