Premier League Managers Deny LMC Sack

#PersonalOpinion

Amongst the 20 Premier League clubs that participated in the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League season only two clubs are privately owned (Nembe City from Bayelsa & ABS FC from Kwara)while the others are government owned and funded from the purse of the state government.

Okay here is the gist, see details after the cut--

The Premier League club managers released a communiqué on Tuesday stating clearly that -

-           “The meeting emphasized on the expiration of the tenure of the LMC in line with the terms of reference given to them by the NFF”

-          “.The meeting specially thanked the chairman and members of the LMC for their efforts in organizing the just concluded league as well as their several innovations and suggestions on the way forward and wished them well in their future endeavours”

-          “In order to avoid a vacuum, the outgoing LMC are to hand over to the secretariat of the league, who are to liaise with the present club owners executive pending the election of a substantive board”

Reply from NFF

The NFF reacted with another release;

“The Nigeria Football Federation has flatly rejected a declaration by managers of clubs in the Nigeria Premier League that they have ‘sacked’ the League Management Company (LMC), which the NFF inaugurated last year to administer the elite division of Nigeria’s domestic football.

Now here’s the gist, the club managers released this on Thursday evening......

The leadership of the premier league Club Owners Association said the group welcomed the intervention by the Nation soccer authority, the NFF in resolving the tenure crisis between the clubs and the LMC, just as they restated that there were no crisis between the body and the LMC as being spread in the media.

Acting Secretary of the club Owners Alloy chukwuemeka told Sports writers at the Glass house office of the NFF Wuse Abuja Thursday that his Association has received a letter from the NFF in reply to their last communiqué and were ready to act as directed by the soccer house. He however re-emphasised that the club Owners never sacked the LMC but only made reference to the NFF terms of reference which was handed to the LMC as it concerned one season tenure as well as issues of election as contained therein