By Victor Enyinnaya on October 8, 2022

I will not go back discussing the eventual outcome of the NFF elective congress which took place in Benin City last week, precisely September 30, because this columnist wrote extensively on it and pointedly said that Ibrahim Musa Gusau had been primed to be elected as the next NFF supremo.

It was emphatically said hit the nail at the head last week Monday, September 26, and pronto Friday, September 30, Ibrahim Musa Gusau was selected in obviously premeditated elective congress in Benin City.  It is there in COLUMN section of our soar away Daily Sports (www.dailysportsng.com).

Note that I never gave the Court order any serious thought because football matters are not treated in conventional Courts that Court of Arbitration for Sports no matter how genuine, weighty the points might be.

I told my friends and all those who believed my sense of unbiased judgment and independent mindedness these odd years that the election will go on scheduled despite. It has come and gone and the proceedings no matter the angle you may be looking at it for now.

I’m not interested discussing that this week than to say that except if miracle happens. It was not surprising because one dubious group that tagged itself as Northern Cuscus in the Federation blew the whistle which the NFF Presidency belongs to the North that the South has served out her term via Amaju Pinnick.

That is Nigeria you and I are supposed to be stakeholders where one side of the country imposes it on others once it comes to highest political office in the land.

Football will no doubt be the worst for it. A country where things are done the wrong way for selfish and above all for wrong reasons. This kind of scenario must not rear its ugly and nasty head again. The present situation calls for sober reflection for every reason. I have been on the hills of calling on football fans to have future as bright as these people of lowest honour would not continue to have upper hand.

Whether you admit it or not, football is still in hands of the failed Amaju Pinnick that could not do anything tangible for eight years of being on the saddle. Football administration has been bleeding. There is no need looking too far to see or observe this nonsense still going on our football administration and sundry since this regime came on board.

The problems that have been facing football administration in the country would persist. The old wine is still inside the bottle despite the change that never produced anything new. No matter how long one would say or write on this abnormality, it is already a spilled milk which yours truly in sports don’t like engaging in.

Fact is that Nigeria is full of contradictions and ironies. The issue remains also that maintaining wrong and dubious status quo has been in front burner in Nigerian system.

The million Naira question on the lips of many objective analysts, pundits and bookmakers ask is how football technocrats’ have been deliberately walled off from nearing the administration of the game in the country?  It remains disturbing in every sense of the word. Ex-internationals allowed themselves to play belly role in NFF which is not how it should be.

These ex-internationals are supposed to be on the frontline in the game’s administration and players’ welfare.  But what is happening today leaves soured taste in the mouth.  All eyes are now on Ibrahim Musa Gusau a physician who could not heal himself leading our national football federation.   He has led his home State football Association Zamfara for only God knows how many years as an emperor but has nothing tangible to readily point to.

What he will be able to bring to the table for governance in NFF remains to be seen in days to come. But mark it that if he is to be looked upon via his antecedents as Zamfara State Football Association chairman where he proved to be a colossal failure then Nigerian football fans are seeing yet another repetition in the NFF. Failure in any national or be it at state level is nothing after all rather such are the kind of persons who receive national awards.

  It is still worrisome that our football that ought to be up there has been retrogressive, like typical Nigerian thing it must pay dearly for it in no distance time. It is only a pity to submit here that the nonsense that has drastically affected Nigeria at the larger political arena unfortunately found itself into our football. One will only say that there is absolutely nothing anybody can do about it than to be on keen look out, hoping for miracle to happen.

What is so sad is that sound and well prepared candidates who came in for this election were shoved out with very ridiculous political calculation. Nobody is clapping for the coming of Ibrahim Musa Gusau. The apathy herein is obvious. Gusau was part and parcel of the Amaju Pinnick led NFF which messed up the entire administration of football in the country. In a civilized climate where sanity rules the system, everyone who was in the last failed regime would not have made their way back. Aside the President, the first Vice President, Chairman of Chairmen etc positions went back to this old order who brought football on its knees presently.

We hope anything new pointing at improvement of our football would come from this Ibrahim Musa Gusau’s regime planted by Amaju Pinnick.

As we keep our fingers crossed and keenly watching closely this kangaroo elective congress of NFF last week Friday, September 30, we will as always urge our numerous readers to keep shooting hard till next week, Meanwhile we wait!!

Source Daily Sports Nigeria

Posted October 3, 2022

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