President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) to right away start the method that may result in holding new elections into its Govt Committee on the expiration of the present administration in September.
President Buhari additionally directed that the instrument of soccer administration within the nation, the NFF Statutes, be amended to incorporate different stakeholders, who had hitherto been disenfranchised, or denied equal illustration within the NFF congress.
The directives had been contained in a letter dated June 17, 2022, addressed to the president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick, and signed by the Minister of Youth and Sports activities Growth, Sunday Dare.
President Buhari, who bolstered the Federal Authorities’s assist for soccer growth within the nation, urged the management of NFF to make sure that the amended statutes replicate the nationwide yearnings, aspirations and peculiarities of Nigeria as a sovereign nation while aligning with the rules and aims of soccer as set by the world soccer governing physique, FIFA.
