Nigeria: No distractions from the crisis, the NFF board led by Amaju Pinnick says

The board of directors of the Nigerian Football Federation Amaju Pinnick badured that its members are more concerned about the general interest of the nation and asked the real actors of Nigerian football to be cautious in their statements and actions

This comes as a backdrop to Chris Giwa's recent attempt to take over the secretariat of the NFF on the basis of an opinion from the prosecutor's office General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice to the Sports Minister ostensibly as a result of an express order issued by the Giwa Group before a Federal High Court on June 5th.

The Giwa group's action followed that of the Attorney General in an earlier response dated June. 13, 2018, Festus Keyamo Chambers, attorneys at Pinnick's board of directors, said that under the remission of the issue by the Supreme Court of Registration in the Federal High Court, the is considered to be pending and therefore sub judice, and after the NFF board headed by Amaju duly challenged the cancellation of the said ex parte order before the 14 statutory days, even if, curiously, the request for the exparte request does not It was not before that, Giwa Group wrote to FIFA on May 2, pending the World Cup, praying for the recognition of the Giwa Council and FIFA in its response of June 5, reaffirmed categorically. its recognition of the 30 September 2014 elections and the Executive Committee led by Amaju.

Reminding them that they had already appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and lost in 2015, FIFA again drew their attention to Articles 59 para 2 and 3 of the FIFA Statutes. which prohibit the use of ordinary courts in matters of football, also informing them that the extended ban of Chris Giwa, Muazu Suleiman, Yahaya Adama, Sani Fema and Johnson Effiong for Breache The NFF Statutes and the Code of Ethics of FIFA are still in force.