As tension continues to build in anticipation of the Nigerian National League organized Super 8 competition rescheduled for Saturday 5th of January in Aba where the final four teams to gain promotion to the Nigeria Professional Football League will be decided, Chairman of one of the representative clubs, Kada Stars, Ekene Adams has declared that his team will once again shun the proposed playoffs.
The top four teams from the NNL and the second placed teams which includes Bendel Insurance, Kada Stars, Gombe United, Remo Stars, Shooting Stars, Delta Force Real Stars and Kogi United have been instructed but the Nigeria Football Federation to adhere to the qualification procedure but most of the private teams have opted against the playoffs calling for the elite league to have a total of 28 teams at the start of the 2019 campaign.
In a chat with foremost Nigerian sports station Brila FM, and monitored by Sports247.ng, Adams revealed that Kada Stars have no intention of also paying the N5 million fine imposed on them by the NFF after they did report in Aba last month. According to him, the NFF can go ahead and impose another N5 million fine or simply make it N10 million. “Kada Stars will not be part of it because we don’t believe in the process.
I can tell you now that the 5 million that was imposed on us for missing the earlier scheduled one has not been paid and we have no intention of paying it and if another one is imposed we still will not pay. We have made our plight known to the federation and chieftains of the NNL that we don’t want to be part of it.”
Controversy engulfed the Nigeria club football scene when the NPFL was called off after 24 matches and Lobi Stars declared as Nigeria’s CAF Champions League representative with no team to be relegated while the NNL were ordered to promote just four teams.
The NPFL resumption date was earlier fixed for December first with the skeleton draw fixed in November but NNL teams have stood their grounds that they will only budge if the entire eight teams get promotion into the Nigerian elite league.
