Protest holds in Abuja against Pinnick
It was further gathered that Thursday's exercise was only “a warning strike” as a bigger protest is still being planned by the organisers.
A peaceful protest march was held in Abuja on Thursday; demanding for President Amaju Pinnick and the entire NFF Executive Committee to resign after the Super Eagles failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
According to reports, the protest march started from the Sports Ministry office at the Federal Secretariat in the Central Area in Abuja and terminated at the Unity Fountain in Maitama District.
It was further gathered that Thursday's exercise was only “a warning strike” as a bigger protest is still being planned by the organisers.
As reported by insideglasshouse.com, the Nigerian Police was alive to its responsibilities on Thursday when it stopped a rival group from infiltrating a peaceful protest demanding the resignation of Pinnick and the entire NFF Executive Committee.
The rival group was allegedly led by a former Nigeria youth international, who is based in South Korea and has benefitted from contracts at the NFF, had planned to join the protest and that way cause violence that would have led to the arrest of those who championed the peaceful march against the NFF.
“The police kept them away from the real group and at the Unity Fountain they were simply locked out,” a source informed www.insideglasshouse.com
The protesters staged a little rally at the Unity Fountain during which their leaders spoke about the instituitionalised corruption at the NFF, which has caused the country’s No 1 sport to suffer from one setback to another under the watch of Amaju Pinnick in the last eight years.
