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Complaints, general elections forces NFF to suspend state FA elections

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been forced to suspend the forthcoming state FA elections across the country owing to the series of complaints  it has received.

The decision to put the elections on hold was contained in the communique of the emergency meeting of the NFF executive committee held on Saturday.

“That given the various complaints that have been received and ventilated in several fora regarding the ongoing electoral processes geared towards the conduct of elections into some Football Associations of the 36 States and the FCT, and against the backdrop of the nationwide elections taking place between February and March 2019, the Executive Committee resolved that the current electoral processes in the Local Councils and States be suspended immediately.

“Executive Committee has thus charged the NFF Football Reform Committee, which composition was approved by the NFF Congress at its Annual General Assembly in Asaba, Delta on 24th October 2018, to see the pattern, composition and electoral processes as one of its major assignments in the work of recommending a comprehensive reform of Nigerian Football,” read the communique.

Consequently, all the state football associations have been directed to convene an Extra-Ordinary Congress before the expiration of their tenure where they are expected to pick a new date between 26th May and 30th June 2019 for its Elective Congress.

Before the suspension, elections into the boards of the state football association were to start from this month, after the NFF had given the go ahead.

 

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