July 05, (THEWILL) – Amaju Melvin Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, has expressed deep dismay at falsehoods attributed to him recently in the local media.
A section of the media claimed recently that the football boss had attacked President Muhammadu Buhari and the Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, over not backing his rumoured desire for a third term as NFF president.
The FIFA Council Member was accused of being on a “spending spree” in the media to “tarnish the image of the Minister and also undermine Mr President’s authority to speak about Nigerian football,” without any examples being provided or quotes being linked to him.
Pinnick responded by insisting that there was no truth to it: “I have never given any interview or motivated any media person to write anything about the President’s directives or to insult the Honourable Minister. As I speak, we are making arrangements to hold the Annual General Assembly once the court communicates to our attorney the Notice of Discontinuance of the two cases that have been delaying the convocation of the Congress.
“I could have kept quiet over this kind of silly campaign, but it is important to put the record straight and also, I have the highest regards for the person of His Excellency, President Buhari, the Government and its institutions. This is a hatchet job, and such can always happen in political times. The campaigners have failed woefully.”
“It is time to give it in full measure to those who hawk blatant falsehood and spend their days and nights planning evil. It will no longer be business as usual. President Buhari has remained an amazing father and lover of Nigeria Football and the National Teams. None of these dirty campaigns by disgruntled persons and haters can have any impact.”
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