The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, General secretary, Barrister
Musa and the Federation’s First Vice
President, Chief Mike Umeh were engaged in a public show of shame in Abu Dhabi Friday when they exchanged blows right
inside the stadium. It was gathered that problem ensued early
evening when Chief Umeh accused
members of League Management
Committee of using “ better cars” than NFF chieftains. It was learnt that he then told a colleague
that Musa was incompetent and was not fit
to handle NFF matters. According to source, on getting to the
stadium, Chief Umeh was given a Category 1
ticket and again he complained saying that
every country was given 20 VIP tickets and
wondered why he could not have one as
NFF Vice President. During the final
match between
Nigeria and Mexico,
Chief Umeh became
angry again when
he saw members of the LMC in the VIP
Box and challenged
the GS who said he
knew nothing
about it “Oga two
of us are seating here, I don’t know
anything about
tickets, besides I
just arrived
yesterday “ the
General Secretary replied. He was shocked
when Chief Umeh
said “you are a
useless man . I
have to trek five
minutes to ease myself in a
competition that belongs to us?” His statement angered Barrister Ahmadu
and he ordered him to withdraw the
statement. Instead Chief Umeh repeated it
and the General Secretary said he was a “
hopeless man”. As they were sitting
together they rose to their feet and went for each other’s jugular saying a lot of
unprintable things. It took some time to get Musa to leave the
seat for another one. A board member has called for a probe of
the incidence when they get back home. “It was shameful to say the least. Chief
Umeh did not behave maturely but there is
need to find out where all our VIP tickets
went to,” he said
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