Tuesday 26 April 2016

Dalung laments NFF crisis


The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung, has said the lingering leadership tussle in the Nigeria Football Federation has placed him in a difficult position.

He said this while responding to questions from reporters at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja on Monday.

Dalung explained that the principal characters in the dispute – Chris Giwa and Amaju Pinnick – had so far refused to sheathe their swords. But he said the ministry had not given up.
He said, “We are between the devil and the deep blue sea. On the one hand, we are confronting a decision of our own court and on other hand, we are facing the threat of sanctions for adopting the rules of international association.

“But I think the best way out of it is that we must be able to come together and plan to mitigate the winner-take-all system.

“I have been emphasising this so many times that the First Republic collapsed because of the winner-take-all. Both leaders must shift from their extreme position to a mid-way in the interest of football and in the interest of the nation.

“They must appreciate the fact that yes, even if their exhibition of charisma they would have overstretched it, now there is a need for them to narrow their differences and summit, especially to the voice of reasoning, so that we can make progress.”

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