Warri Wolves Football Club have tendered an unreserved apology to the Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, as well as the chairman of the Delta State Sports Commission, DSSC, Chief Tonobok Okowa, and fans of the side over its inabilities to maintain top-flight status in Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL.
In a club statement signed by the club chairman, Moses Etu, the Seasiders expressed deep regret and apologies to Governor Okowa, who ensured that every support financially and otherwise was readily available for the team – a situation which enabled them to pay salaries up to date as the end of Matchday 38 of the 2020/2021 Nigerian Professional Football League, NPFL, campaign.
” The management team of Warri Wolves hereby tender an unreserved apology for its inability to maintain its status in the Nigerian Professional Football League, NPFL, at the end of 2020/21 season,” the statement says.
“First, the management team, led by Moses Etu, expresses its deep regret and apologies to the Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, who made everything available – as a result, the club is not owing to a single kobo as salary at the end of Matchday 38 of the just concluded unfortunate season for us.”
The oil city club extended the same apology to the chairman of the state sports commission, Tonobok Okowa, saying that he was always there for the Seasiders through thin and thick.
The statement notes: “The Management equally extends the same apology to the Executive Chairman of Delta State Sports Commission, DSSC, Chief Tonobok Okowa, who was always there for the team through thin and thick.”
The club management team noted that it had learned its lessons painfully in a hard way, assuring the fans these lessons would guide the side in the future in the quest to attain NPFL status again.
“And to our teeming fans, we say sorry and must confess that serious lessons have been learned from what transpired this season, which will guide us as we prepare to plan for the future,” the statement reads further.
“Like every other human being, we agree: we made some mistakes along the line and all effort to put things right did not work.”
“We cherish your unalloyed support and pray that God gives us the wisdom to get it right as we did two seasons ago.”
Warri Wolves lost by a lone goal to FC Ifeanyi Ubah in Nnewi on Matchday 38 of the outcome NPFL campaign.
With that results, Warri Wolves have officially relegated them to the second tier of the Nigeria National League, NNL, next season.
