By Maduabuchi Kalu, Lagos on October 8, 2016

The first Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association (LSFA), Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, has explained the reason why the Nigerian Women League and the Women Federation Cup do not have sponsors.

According to him, the NFF is under contract and until that contract they entered into runs its full course, there is nothing they can do. He explained that there is light at the end of the tunnel as the contract has just come to an end, even as he expressed the hope that they would be sponsors for the Women League and the Federation Cup.

Akinwunmi gave this reason while fielding questions on Tuesday during the unveiling of Asisat Lamina Oshoala as the “Face of 2016 Women Federation Cup” at the Sports Bar of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere on why the Federation was finding it difficult to secure sponsors for the league and the Federation Cup.

“On the sponsorship, the Federation is bound by contract and up to this year, there were some subsisting contracts and that was what I alluded to at the beginning,” Akinwunmi said.

“So, we won’t get or obtain new sponsors and that contract has just ended. So, by next year by the grace of God, we hope to see new sponsorship for the Federation Cup,” he explained.

The Nigerian Women League for some years now has no sponsors; thereby making the running of the female league very difficult even as Dilichukwu Onyedinma, the Chairman of the Women League has been lamenting paucity of funds to run the league.

Just last week, the League Management Company (LMC) led by Mallam Shehu Dikko, extended help to the Nigeria Women League to the tune of N10 million to bail it out of its financial quagmire.

•Photo shows Barrister Akinwunmi.

Source Daily Sports

Posted October 8, 2016

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