The Nigeria Football Federation on Friday elected Ibrahim Musa Gusau as its 40th President.
According to The PUNCH, he was elected as the new president of the national football body at the NFF’s 78th Elective Congress in Benin, the Edo State capital.
He secured 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.
Drama however ensued when a group, under the name Nigeria Football Stakeholders, threatened to bomb the Benin City venue of the election, if it was not cancelled adding that “blood will flow.” The group accused the Amaju Pinnick-led board of embezzlement and fraud.
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’s Executive Committee.
The 10 persons that jostled to succeed Amaju Pinnick as Nigeria football’s supremo are current vice presidents Seyi Akinwunmi and Mallam Shehu Dikko, as well as current Executive Committee members, Ibrahim Gusau and Suleiman Yahaya-Kwande.
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.
