The recent decision by the League Management Company (LMC) which excluded two privately owned Clubs, Nembe City FC and Giwa FC of Jos from participating in the Glo Premier League has been receiving knocks from stakeholders.
Both clubs have been excluded from participating in the 2013/2014 league season on the grounds of non-compliance with registration requirements.
But, the acting Secretary of the Club Owners, Alloy Chukwuemeka, said the LMC lacks the power to take such decision excluding the two clubs.
Chukwuemeka spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday on arrival for a meeting with the affected clubs, insisting that that the exclusive powers to relegate, promote, dismiss, exclude and suspend any team from any cadre of the leagues in Nigeria reside with the NFF.
He added that what the LMC should have done was to recommend their findings to the NFF for action, not rushing to the media to announce their exclusion which amounts to usurping the powers of the NFF/AGA.
According to him “Yes, we are here for the meeting as you rightly observed but I cannot pre-empt the outcome of the meeting, so you can wait until we come out of the meeting”
“The essence of the meeting is first, in solidarity with our colleagues whose clubs were excluded from participating in the league, so we are here also to find out the true position of the issues on ground so that we can present it to our larger forum and other relevant quarters”
“Personally, I think the LMC lack such powers to exclude any team from participating in the league, it is the exclusive powers of the federation, they can only recommend, that is all I can say for now, so just wait until after the meeting,” the acting Scribe said.
