The Nigeria Football Association Annual General Assembly that was supposed to be characterized by violence from a section of its stakeholders ended peacefully last week but the constitution of the Electoral Committee and Election Appeals Committees is creating a different kind of disquiet in the country’s football family.
A state chairman of one of the South-eastern states who was at the AGA in Lagos stressed at the weekend that imposing Chairman and Vice Chairman on those appointed into the two committees was like a script was already on the table to be followed. The chairman who would not want his name in print, continued. “The story flying around is that some of these electoral committee and election appeals committee members have personal ties with those that selected them which is most unfortunate. We must be concerned as to whether they will be given the latitude to work independently.”
“You can see the handwriting on the wall and the direction they want the election to go because how do you explain that nobody from the South East is good enough to be Chairman or Vice Chairman in either of the election appeals committee or the electoral committee.”