"Rich Nigeria Club Owner Bankrolls NNL Emergency Congress To Change Ready-Made Groupings" - Gara Gombe Alleges

"Rich Nigeria Club Owner Bankrolls NNL Emergency Congress To Change Ready-Made Groupings" - Gara Gombe Alleges By Editor Former Chairman, Gombe State Football Association, Gara Gombe has alleged that the Nigeria National League Congress scheduled to hold this weekend is bankrolled by a top Nigeria club owner to change his team from the group it was placed. Gara also added that the said club is from the Southern part of Nigeria and if the draws of the group in the Southern Conference changes from the one in circulation, then Nigeria should not be surprised. He said this is done in a desperate move for the club to get a slot to the NPFL. "The NNL supposed to take off today (Saturday) which is 30th of January, suddenly announcement was made for postponement. All the clubs participating in the league were drawn and grouped in an abridged format. According to the NNL this groups were transparently made in accordance to the rules of engagement. "The reason they have for the postponement of the league is that some clubs have not finish their registration, why did you go and carried out groupings when clubs have not their registrations? He queried. "You said the groups were transparently made, the insinuations and allegations from the grapevine and my finding, was that they postponed because of registration but they call for emergency Congress, which will hold on Sunday. This emergency Congress, it was not clear what the agenda is and the statutes is clear that for an emergency Congress you must give the clubs 2 weeks notice and the agenda of that Congress must attached to the invitation that has not been done. The allegations that is going on is that there is one powerful Nigeria who owns a clubs in one of the groups who was not comfortable with the groupings and therefore kicked against it and said his club is not going to play if the groupings is not changed. "And now the power-that-be in football said they want to do a Congress. What are they going to discuss? "But the allegation is that tomorrow we shouldn't be surprised if we see a different groupings coming out of that Congress different from this one that has been done. "Who are the clubs that said they have not met registration requirement? So if by any reason a table comes out tomorrow different from this one that has been published just know that these allegations are confirmed and that is fraudulent. "The club is from the Southern part, the groupings of the Northern side, they have already accepted that they are okay with it but this powerful person whose club is not favoured, you know at the end of the season 2 clubs will qualify from each group to form the super 8. He discovered that with the calibre of teams in his group, his team will not qualify that is why he now pushed for a change and it is because of him this emergency Congress is been called . "And reliably also there are allegations that he bankrolled the Congress but for now we cannot confirm this allegations but we should be on alert . "If any table comes out different from this one then that confirmed our allegations and that is the time the real wahala and problem will start for the board that is not elected and for the chairman that has not been elected." He concluded