A team of policemen on Monday
sealed off the Nigeria Football Federation secretariat at Wuse, Abuja. The policemen from Wuse
Divisional Police Station chased out the workers, locked the secretariat and
barred people from the building.
An NFF worker who was hanging
around the premises said, “We were carrying out our duties when the policemen
stormed the building and asked everyone to vacate the premises. All the workers
moved out of the building and the police blocked the entrance and armed
officers took over everywhere.”
The FCT Police Public Relations
Officer, Anjuguri Manzah, confirmed the deployment of policemen
in the NFF, saying “we are only doing our duty of preserving law and
order.”
Findings indicate that the police
action may not be unconnected with the power tussle between the sacked NFF
President, Amaju Pinnick and his rival, Chris Giwa.
Pinnick was sacked from office by
a Federal High Court sitting in Jos last Friday after granting the prayers of
Yahaya Adama and Senator Obinna Ogba, to relist a suit which among other
things had sought to nullify the Warri General Assembly and the subsequent
elective congress that turned in Pinnick as NFF President.