The General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Musa Amadu, last night challenged the Nigeria Police to prosecute him if they had any evidence that he was the author of the FIFA letter which accepted the ‘majority’ report of the NFF Elections Appeals’ Committee which validated the September 30 elective congress in Warri.
A letter written by FIFA’s Secretary General, Jerome Valcke, on Tuesday overturned the minority position of the Chairman of the Appeals’ Committee, Okechukwu Ajunwa, who pronounced that the elections contradicted NFF Electoral Code and Statutes and therefore voided four positions, including those of the President, 1st Vice President, the representatives of the North West and the South East respectively.
Amadu said he was hurt by innuendoes and allegations in the media that he was the one behind the letter, insisting that the allegation was a criminal one as it amounted to forgery.
“Anybody that makes such allegation has to come with a proof because forgery is a criminal offence. I am not the one manufacturing FIFA Letter or forging Jerome Valcke’s signature. I challenge whoever has the evidence to back up this accusation to provide it to the police so that I can be prosecuted for criminal offence,” Amadu said
The NFF scribe who said he had been maligned and subjected to undue pressure to take sides in the course of the protracted crisis that raged like a wild fire since June, however insisted that he had tried to maintain his neutrality by not taking sides with any of the warring factions.
“I have been unfairly maligned, abused and called many names in the course of the crisis, but I have decided not to take sides by following due process.
“I have nothing against anybody—Ogunjobi, Pinnick, Dikko, Maigari and Giwa. I am only obliged to support whoever is recognised by law as the one in charge of the NFF,” he noted.
Amadu said he complied with an earlier directive to vacate his office.
“When the NFF problem started, I was here when they brought a letter saying that I should leave. I complied and they latter recalled me” Amadu recalled.
The world governing body of the game last week received two parallel reports by the Appeals Committee before it took a position on Tuesday on the recommendation of the reports as it affected the status of the NFF elections in Warri.
The majority report upheld by FIFA was faxed to Zurich by Amadu after he received it from the Secretary of the Elections Appeal Committee, Sanusi Mohammed, while Ajunwa by-passed the NFF secretariat by directly sending a copy of his report to FIFA on December 5.
Amadu told reporters last night he decided to send the Ajunwa report to FIFA last Monday after he got a copy of the 80-page report sent by Ajunwa via courier service same day at about 11.17 am.
“ So FIFA has decided on which of the two reports should be upheld under the prevailing circumstances. We cannot be talking about forgery in this regard because it bothered on mischief,” concludes the administrative head of the Nigerian federation in Abuja.
Source:Thisdaylive
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