QUESTION - Who Wants Christopher Giwa In Glass House???

Just like recent elections in Nigeria where the opposition have been crying against the militarization of elections a similar process has occurred at the NFF election. Elections were held, after some NFF chieftains were arrested by men from the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and detained.

If you know a bit about politics and election in Nigeria then the sudden arrest of some officials before the election will tell you who the anointed FG candidate is. Its surely the old way of playing politics and making election victories count to the party in power. Take for example several APC chieftains were arrested hours before the elections in Ekiti and Osun State which could only imply that the ruling power was doing everything possible to win the election at all cost using the federal might. The super cry of the APC against militarization of elections is not basically based on intimidation but on the use of this uniformed men in rigging election votes for favouring the PDP.


Just pause and think a bit why were they arrested before the election? Who called for the arrest? Why was the election not postponed due to the arrest of their members? who controls the DSS? Whose candidate is Christopher Giwa? Why did only 29 members vote out of 44? Were the elections less important that other members could just stay off from?

The answers to this questions are probably unknown now to the public but some few Nigerians and Giwa's team must know the answers to this questions. Take some clues from the political scene of the country in getting the answers to this questions. Why was Amaechi and Oshiomole denied entry into Ekiti a day before the election? Was Obanikoro's presence necessary in Ekiti and Osun the nights before the elections? Who arrested Lai Mohammed some hours before the election? Who sent masked policemen and soldiers after the former Governor of Osun State Senator Isiaka Adeleke?

Well one thing is clear for some of us involved in politics in the country, go there and vote Giwa in, arrest people that will try to stop him some hours before the election, intimidate the people that will oppose Giwa and they will stay out of the election. Maybe it should even occur to us that some members opposing would have stayed off because they perceived the coming of the DSS or some would have escaped just like the Hon. commissioner of Agriculture who made it into the bush to escape arrest In Osun or some might have ran like the former Gorvernor of Osun State who fled on sighting the military men after him at the polling booth, wow! a whole ex Gov yes, he had to flee....

The faction, who sat at the Chida International Hotel in Utako, went ahead with the election proper as against the notion that the congress was to sit and work out a new roadmap to usher in the elections for transparency sake. Its this election that pronounced Giwa as the new President but the pro-Aminu Maigari faction met later on despite a bevy of plain-clothes policemen around the Bentley Hotel venue, dissolved the NFF executive committee and the congress nominated AC Ladan, EC Chukwuemeka and Isaac Ayodele to assist in the running of the Secretariat pending elections.

After the arrest of Maigari, Musa Amadu and Chris Gree earlier in the morning which threw the congress into doubt, as the state FA chairmen insisted Maigari be released before any legitimate congress take place. The state FA chairmen, who were defiant in their protest for the release of Maigari, were also accosted by security operatives as they made their way to the DSS offices in Abuja. The faction loyal to Maigari agreed that a congress will be held on September 4 in Abuja for the elections proper while insisting the troubled president be reinstated and oversee the September 4 election process.

More drama ensued later on Tuesday evening as the general congress eventually sat and disassociated itself from the election that brought Giwa to power. Mazi Amanze Uchegbulam, who is contesting to be president, described it as “a total disregard for the statutes.”
It will be left to see how events unfold over the next few days as the September 4 date sets in with the possibility of Fifa intervening again in the electoral process in what has turned out to be a sad chain of events for Nigerian football.

This manner of political play looks dirty and disgracing not for only football lovers and followers alone but for the whole country and Africa at large.

Well time will tell and one day the mysteries behind this facts will be exposed.