Rejoinder: NFSC says it’s not Super Eagles Supporters Club duplicating it uniform

By Peter Ejiofor

The Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) says it is retracting its publication of March 1, where erroneously the Super Eagles Supporters Club was mentioned as duplicating its branded regalia of draft design.

The said publication had claimed that a renegade group was duplicating its uniform and warned that it posed the danger that they might use it to defraud the public, saying the club would not be held responsible should such people commit crime wearing it.

But the National Publicity of NFSC, Mr Dominic Ehimare, in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, urged Nigeria football fans to understand the position of NFSC on such a sensitive issue.

“The NFSC is aware that the development may have caused the Super Eagles Supporters Club and sued for their understanding,’’ Ehimare, a lawyer said.

However, he insisted that it had been brought to the notice of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC), of the duplication of its branded regalia of draft design by a renegade group.

“It’s on record that the NFSC has created a niche for herself with carefully and creatively designed uniforms for its members which they adorn whenever they appear in any football tournaments and other sporting functions all over the world.

“The draft design recently adopted by the club has stood its members out in various outings both within and outside the shores of Nigeria,’’ Ehimare said.

He said the duplication of the uniform by a splinter group was unacceptable as this might expose NFSC members to the risk of mistaken identity by their teeming admirers and football loving Nigerians all over the world.

“The public, by this notice, should beware that should anyone in our duplicated uniform engages his or herself in any crime, the NFSC should not be held accountable as a splinter group now adorns our uniforms.

“At this juncture, the NFSC strongly advises the impostors to desist from parading themselves with this uniform, as failure to retrace their steps may leave us with no other option than to seek legal redress in the court of law,’’Ehimare said.