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Another dismissed candidate in the NFF Board
By
Olajide Ayodeji Fashikun
Controversy seems to be the middle name of the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) headed by Alhaji Aminu Maigari as our month
long checks has finally revealed that one of the members was
dismissed from the civil service in similar circumstances like
that of Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi. It would be recalled that Chief
Taiwo Ogunjobi was also a dismissed public officer under the
regime of Colonel Ahmed Usman, the former military administrator
of Oyo State, who personally signed his dismissal for financial
maladministration. It was after this dismissal that he served a
four-year tenure as Secretary General and another four year
tenure as a member of the board.
In saner climes, the office of the Attorney general of the
Federation (AGF) would have started prosecution to recover such
public funds expended on his decision not to fully and
truthfully disclose that he was a dismissed officer. There is a
sitting member of the Maigari board of the NFF that is a
dismissed public officer. Efforts are ongoing to see the forms
the alleged officer filled in the bid to get to the board to see
if truly he too did not disclose his status and that will amount
to a crime.
Contacted for comments, Barrister Deji Gbadeyan (mni) said,
“given the non disclosure of his dismissal status at the time of
contesting for the office, he is deficient *ab initio* and is
not qualified to hold office. All allowances, salaries and
emoluments so paid to him as a result is paid in error and
should be returned to the public till. A crime is deemed to have
been committed.”
In view of the above, the dismissed public officer presently
sits on the board of NFF as against the provisions of the
Statutes governing the game both in the country, CAF and FIFA
which provides that anybody who is bankrupt or dismissed or
convicted by a court of law is not qualified to run for the
election, then, this member is corruptly sitting on the board.
It provides that every decision he would have participated in is
tainted. Watch out for the ground breaking details of how he was
dismissed, who the person is, where he was dismissed, his
offence and other issues. It is amust read you can’t afford to
miss.
Olajide Ayodeji Fashikun
Director, Sports Development & Marketing,
Nigeria Sports Development Fund Inc.,
Suite 59, NICON Luxury, Tafawa Balewa Street,
Area 11, Garki,
Abuja, Nigeria
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