{"id":65167,"date":"2022-09-30T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=65167"},"modified":"2022-09-30T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T18:23:03","slug":"how-gusau-was-elected-new-nff-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/how-gusau-was-elected-new-nff-president\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gusau Was Elected New NFF President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against all odds, Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Friday becomes the 40th President of the Nigeria Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Gusau was elected as the new NFF President at NFF\u2019s 78th Elective Congress in Benin, the Edo State capital.<\/p>\n<p>He polled 21 votes to defeat his closet challenger, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, who got 12. The second runner-up, erstwhile League Management Committee Chairman, Shehu Dikko, garnered six votes.<\/p>\n<p>It was earlier reported that\u00a0today\u2019s NFF election will go down as one of the most contentious in the history\u00a0of Nigerian football but matters worsened when a group, under the name Nigeria Football Stakeholders, threatened to bomb the Benin City venue of the election, if it was not canceled adding that \u201cblood will flow.\u201d The group accused the Amaju Pinnick-led board of embezzlement and fraud.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>A ruling by the Court of Appeal on Thursday morning ordered a stay-of-execution of an ex parte injunction secured a fortnight ago to stop the elections, meaning that the coast was clear for the contest for the NFF presidency by 10 individuals and dozen other notable persons jostling for seats on the federation\u2019s Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 persons that jostled to succeed Amaju Pinnick as Nigeria football\u2019s supremo are current vice presidents Seyi Akinwunmi and Mallam Shehu Dikko, as well as current Executive Committee members, Ibrahim Gusau and Suleiman Yahaya-Kwande.<\/p>\n<p>Others cleared for the exalted post, to be vacated by Pinnick, are immediate past General Secretary, Musa Amadu and Head of Safety and Security of the Confederation of African Football, Christian Emeruwa, Mouktar Mohammed, former Nigeria international, Peterside Idah, Abba Yola and UK-based David-Buhari Doherty.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against all odds, Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Friday becomes the 40th President of the Nigeria Football Federation.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":65168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[9924],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-65167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports","tag-ibrahim-musa-gusau"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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