The facts, fables and foibles of NFF Elections

[FILES] Pinnick. Photo: TWITTER/THENFF

It appears the train of the elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has left the Terminus. The contestants are gearing up for the elections despite an overwhelming ‘consensus’ that some changes need to be made to the election rules in order to be able to usher in a new era and regime of football development following the failure of the out-going board as evidenced in the empty shelf for trophies in the football house.

Only those directly involved in the affairs of the football federation in the past eight years of the board would consider the period anything else but a failure.

That major players in that board have the audacity to seek to become the next President raises questions about the process of the elections. Ordinarily, they should or would not secure a single vote, if the public sentiment about them is to be interpreted. Even the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, had to take the unprecedented step of pointing out that amendments are needed and should be effected to provide the platform for more equitable elections to take place.

To all intents and purposes his wise counsel is being disregarded, totally ignored. The elections by the same old ‘failed’ people and process are expected to produce a different result. Who is fooling who?

It follows that the process will continue to attract forensic scrutiny and demand an audit, until something is done to halt the disturbing decline in the development of the country’s number one sport.

Acquiescing to a flawed electoral process would never yield a different and better harvest of leadership and direction for Nigerian football. How can any ‘outsider’ believe they can win with a lopsided electorate