FIFA 20-day deadline for NFA election

Our advice is coming on the heels of directives that, the election be held next month.If feelers reaching us are worth given a second thought, the much orchestrated agitation for the election of a new Board for the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), must be held in December 2005...about 20 days into the last month of the year.  

 Our investigations show that, inspite of some underground manouvres being designed to shift the election to March 2006 after the Africa Nation Cup in Egypt by the current powers at the Abuja house, FIFA has decreed that the election must be held 20 days after the expiration of the term of the current board.

The body's Congress scheduled to  hold next Monday, November 28, 2005 nigeriasports.com scooped, may no longer be relevant in determining the modus operandi of the election. 

 "That Congress is no longer relevant with the deadline from FIFA.  The global governors of the game assumes that, the national FA had been working in consonace with the earlier documents they submitted and going by that, the present board ought to vacate their seats 20 days after the expiration of their usefulness," our reliable source from Abuja told us.

 Top on  the agenda of the congress would have been the adoption of the FIFA Status, which would form the basic guiding principles for the election of the next board.  According to our shattered Glass House Headquarters of the nation's soccer body source, "after adopting the FIFA Status, there would be a minimal period of one month for the operation of the new status.

"This of course, would swallow up the whole of December, 2005 ( that is if there is an election); and as you know, the 2006 Africa Nations Cup is in January and it may not be wise thinking to bring in new hands to handle the affairs of the FA then. 

 The continental championship is expected to eat into February 2006; so you can see that, the election of a new board, has to come but in March, 2006 or there-about, "but as it were right now, Zurich is in no mood for such Nigerian Made political gimmicks.

Close observers and stake holders in the game, see this as a baseless ploy by the Galadima-led board to continue in office and take the nation to the EGYPT 2006 NATIONS CUP in Cairo next year, as there would not be any major "international racketeering mission for them next year, which would be as sumptuous as the gathering of Africa's best football nations in Egypt...a forum where the country hopes to perhaps, heal or at least heave a sigh of relief from the emotional injuries inflicted on her by the World Cup ticket loss to less-fancied Angola."