threat to Nigeria. FIFA Emergency Committee on Wednesday warned that
Nigeria would be suspended with immediate effect from September 8
should there still be persons claiming to have been elected to the
Nigeria Football Federation positions and occupying their offices by
the stated date.
The fresh threat came via a letter sent from Zurich to the general
secretary of the NFF, Musa Amadu, and signed by FIFA secretary general
Jerome Valcke on Wednesday. The letter emphasised that should the new
deadline not be respected, the NFF will be automatically suspended
until the board claiming to be elected vacates the premises of the NFF
and the NFF general secretary is able to perform his work without
interference.
The letter reads in part, "The emergency committee was briefed on the
sequence of events of the last weeks and more on the circumstances
which surrounded August 26, 2014 general assembly. It took note of the
fact that president, one executive committee member and the general
secretary had been put under police custody while the general assembly
was supposed to decide on a new roadmap leading to the elections and
to resolve the issue of electoral committees.
"The Emergency Committee learnt that despite the absence of the
president, the Minister of Sports opened the general assembly whose
agenda was soon after altered in order to organise immediate elections
which led many delegates to leave the place and meet elsewhere."
FIFA has also asked that the NFF executive committee as it was
composed on August 26, 2014, meaning under the presidency of Aminu
Maigari, should convene as soon as possible a first extraordinary
general assembly to elect the members of the electoral committee and a
second extraordinary general assembly in the shortest time possible
allowed by law in order to proceed with the elections of new NFF
office-bearers.
In an earlier letter sent on August 29, 2014, FIFA confirmed that it
would not recognise the results of the August 26 elections and that
the matter would be brought to the respective FIFA bodies should there
still be persons claiming to have been elected and occupying the NFF
offices at midnight on 1 September 2014. But on expiry of the
deadline, the Chris Giwa-NFF members were still claiming to have been
elected and were occupying the NFF premises.
On Wednesday, Giwa issued a warning to the Maigari-led NFF not to hold
any assembly on Thursday (today) as the elections had already been
held last week. The Maigari group have scheduled elections for
Thursday.
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