NFF O&D fraud: Kogi United cries foul over bias favour for Adamawa United

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The Nigeria Football Federation Organising and Disciplinary Committee has awarded three points and three goals to Adamawa United in the controversial match against Kogi United.

The development is already generating a lot of fuss in the camp of Kogi United.

It would be recalled that the Adamawa United and Kogi United case was one of the cases attended to by the committee, which sat at the NFF secretariat last Wednesday in Abuja.

The management of Kogi United cried foul over the manner the case was handled by the NFF Organizing and Disciplinary committee, O&D, saying that the committee did not do a good job in their investigation before passing judgment.

According to a top official of the Lokoja based club, who pleaded to discuss with this reporter on condition of anonymity stated that they did not commit any of the offences they were accused of, maintaining that their fans did not encroach into the field of play as their opponents claimed in their protest letter.

He explained that due to the sensitive nature of the match we needed to educate our fans to comport themselves before and during the match.

“It was a surprise when we saw fans storming the pitch at half time. And I want to stress that we do not know those fans and definitely they were not our fans. And the policemen on duty did everything within their power to disperse the unruly crowd, and after they were cleared out, Adamawa players refused to come out to continue the match. And the next thing we saw was that they had brought the case to the O&D,” he said.

The Kogi United official lamented how the O&D could fall for that simple prank by Adamawa United, and go ahead to award the match to them.

“This is indeed not a fair judgment and to tell you that that there is more to it than meet the eye. As I talk to you we have not been passed the ruling by the NFF and the news is all over the place that the match has been awarded to Adamawa United. How did Adamawa get the information? That is to tell you that they know what they are doing. But we are waiting to get the report of the O and D committee before we determine our next line of action,’ he stressed.

And when our reporter visited the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation to get the true situation of things, the committee’s secretary, Mr Tunde Aderibigbe confirmed as of that time that the decision had not been sent to the two clubs as they were still waiting for the General Secretary to sign it before the clubs would be duly informed.