World football-governing body,
FIFA rose from its emergency meeting on Wednesday, announcing September 8, 2014
as the new deadline for the NFF President Chris Giwa, to quit office or the
federation will be suspended forthwith.
A statement issued by FIFA on
Wednesday said that a letter, dated 3rd September, 2014 had been addressed to
the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), confirming that the NFF will be
suspended with immediate effect should there still be persons claiming to have
been elected to NFF positions on 26 August 2014 and occupying their offices on
Monday, 8 September 2014 at 08.00 (Central European Time). The letter followed
the decision by the FIFA Emergency Committee.
The letter, entitled ‘FIFA
Emergency Committee sets 8 September deadline for NFF’, was posted on the FIFA official website.
In a letter sent on 29 August
2014, FIFA confirmed that it would not recognise the results of the
aforementioned elections and that the matter would be brought to the respective
FIFA bodies should there still be persons claiming to have been elected and
occupying the NFF offices at midnight on 1 September 2014.
On expiry of the deadline, some
people were still claiming to have been elected and were occupying the NFF
premises.
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