{"id":30170,"date":"2014-08-13T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30170"},"modified":"2014-08-13T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:54:15","slug":"nff-election-cant-disqualify-anyone-minister-tell-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nff-election-cant-disqualify-anyone-minister-tell-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"NFF Election: You can&#8217;t disqualify anyone , minister tells committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22305\">The Minister of Sports, Tamuno Danagogo, said on Wednesday that it is unacceptable to disqualify any one Interested in the presidency \u00a0of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22477\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22479\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister opposed \u00a0the decision of the electoral committee of the \u00a0NFF, to disqualify former international,\u00a0\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22478\">Segun Odegbami; former scribe of the NFF, Taiwo Ogunjobi; and current Acting Chairman of the Federation, Victor Umeh.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22481\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22480\">Only one candidate, Chris Giwa, owner of Giwa FC, was cleared to contest for President of the NFF. Mr. Danagogo, however, condemned the electoral process expected to lead to the August 26 election of new leaders of the NFF.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22482\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22484\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the minister &#8220;<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22483\">\u201c(This) level of ineptitude is certainly not acceptable. NSC will not conduct elections for them. We will do everything possible to conduct free and fair election. \u201cIf it means we will delay the process or resell the form. Forms should be open to individuals eligible to compete,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22486\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22485\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22488\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22487\">Mr. Danagogo, who is also the chairman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22500\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22499\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22498\">\u00a0\u201cWe do not support any process that looks fraudulent,\u2026, that produced one candidate. We want a situation where all stakeholders will contest and neat result will come out. \u201cFor that reason, to us it is proper and it is acceptable to let the press know that we agree with the aggrieved persons in totality,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1407942671642_22497\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Sports, Tamuno Danagogo, said on Wednesday that it is unacceptable to disqualify any one Interested in the presidency \u00a0of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) The minister opposed&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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