Edo Deputy Governor denies stopping state’s FA election

By Ifeanyi Eduzor
Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu has denied reports in some sections of the media that he halted the Edo Football Association Local Government elections scheduled for Tuesday April 11, 2023.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Ebomhiana Musa and made available to newstap.com.ng it described the report as unfounded and can best be described as garbage dished out by some social media rats.

The statement further noted that the state’s number 2 citizen is a lover of football and played to a top level of the game and has been supporting its growth in Nigeria and indeed globally noting that he has no hand in such a wicked action

” Edo State Football Association is an entity under the leadership of Comrade Roland Abu and supervised by the Edo State Sports Commission headed by Mr Yussuf Alli. To a large
extent, the Commission is an independent body overseeing sports in the state including football.
“The hands of the Deputy Governor are full of official responsibilities. So, he has not got the luxury of time seeing to the day-to-day running of the Sports Commission.
“It is the constitutional duty of the FA (Chairman and board members/electoral committee) to determine when and how an election will be conducted in line with the extant laws and of course, the Commission has to be carried along and I urge the general public, especially football stakeholders to ignore the spurious claim.
“I also want to advise the unscrupulous elements spreading this shameful information to desist from it and stop dragging the name of the Deputy Governor into it”, the statement concluded