By Victor Okoye
Abuja, Aug. 9, 2023 (NAN) The Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria (PFAN) Task force has faulted the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Standing and Ad-hoc Committees list released on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NFF constituted its standing and ad-hoc committees with a total of 17 standing committees and three ad-hoc committees.
The names of chairmen, vice chairmen and members of the 17 standing committees and three ad-hoc committees were made available to newsmen on Tuesday.
Harrison Jalla, the Chairman, PFAN Task force has however faulted the list, saying that there was a need for the NFF to tinker with the list and the process, adding that there were alot of incompetent individuals in the list.
“For a complete departure from the past President of the NFF, Ibrahim Gusau must tinker with the list of the NFF standing and Ad-hoc committees released on Tuesday.
“A list of committee members dominated by NFF Board members without expertise is not different from what we used to have in the past.
“This is a very dangerous signal that would dampen the hope for change and a new order,” he said.
Jalla noted that standing and ad-hoc committees were the engine rooms of successful Football Federations world wide.
He advised that membership of these committees be open to qualified and competent Nigerians with expertise in different disciplines relevant to such committees to reposition Nigeria Football.
“Football loving Nigerians and stakeholders have been disilutioned with the maladministration and incompetence that characterised an NFF dominated by states Football Association Chairmen.
“They therefore agitated for reforms which the Federal government has since bought into.
“It is therefore absurd to gift these committees to known grossly incompetent NFF Board members who also double as State Football Association Chairmen with nothing to show for Football development in their states.
“It is complete lack of seriousness to return our Football to the Global stage it once attained.
“Nigeria Football has suffered drastic down turn in the last eight years and does not deserve to return to the old order,” he said.
He urged the NFF president not to erode stakeholders confidence which he had garnered by getting the repositioning of the domestic leagues right.
He stressed that the committees cannot and should not be the exclusive preserve of the NFF Board members.
He added that it would be against the spirit of reforms Nigeria Football stakeholders hope to see in the Ibrahim Gusau led NFF administration. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
