NFF Elections – Plenty of motion, no movement

President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick PHOTO: Reuter

The Election for the office of President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has gripped the imagination and attention of Nigerians.

A meeting of the General Assembly of the federation has never attracted as much national attention as it did these past few days. 

At the time of writing this, the meeting had ended, the ‘camp’ had been vacated, and all the assembled members had withdrawn to their various interests to draw up new strategies on how to wrest power.     A day after the meeting, all is seemingly calm. Anticipated ‘fights’ did not take place. There were even little hugs and kisses beneath the pent-up ‘anger’ to add to the real drama of the President, Amaju Pinnick, finally succumbing to the reality that he could not win in a third term election in the office with all the ‘forces’ against him at the Congress. 

There was only a mention of amendments to some articles in the current statutes of the federation without laying out the processes and steps to effect the change within the short time of the elections.    There was no mention of who would drive and affect the amendments in the statutes that are the major problem with the election. 

Without those amendments nothing can be achieved, it will be a return to the status quo, back to ugly vomit, back to an administration populated by the same persons that have led the country down the road the country wants to veer away from.

The membership of the congress and of the electorate that will elect new executive members has not changed. The product of such an election will be more of the old same.    There is also the matter of a court case in Bayelsa State that had stalled the meeting of the