Group Hails Baribote For Petitioning FIFA

Nigeria

The Obama group, a body that believes in the enthronement of good governance that will take the Premier League to higher grounds has hailed the decision of Victor Baribote to take the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) election issue to world football body, FIFA.

The group noted that it will finally expose the ills of the game in Nigeria as the former impeached board members wants everybody to believe.

“This is what we have been praying for. The chicken has finally come to roost. It will afford FIFA and the football fraternity the opportunity to see the illegality that has transpired and perpetrated by the impeached NFF cabal in their bid to settle personal score and to clinch to power.

“It is good that FIFA will now see how all laid down rules as it concerns electioneering matters were flagrantly abused and turned upside down.”

The Obama group believes that this is the time for FIFA to ask salient questions on how the NFF came about setting up arbitration panel and how an individual can upturn the decision of a congress which is a supreme body.

FIFA will also like to know how the electoral matter that has been provided for in the standard electoral code ended in an arbitration panel.

The Obama group is, however, pained that the revelations will put a lot of question mark on the calibre of leadership that has run our football in the last four years.

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