How We Were Attacked In Ilorin-Kaduna United

Kaduna United Football Club was attacked in Ilorin by the supporters of Kwara United as the club's chairman,Sabo Babayaro was seriously wounded.

While narrating the story, the emerge maker of the club Abdulhaman Tonga who was as the center of the scene said, the trouble started after the match ends draw in the fist half of the game, where the fans of the home team started threatening the center referee for not given them any chance to score a goal.

“What happens is that, some members of the club a mean Kwara United try to penetrate us by any means to make sure we help them to win the match, but we try to let them know that we are desperate to play Continental also. The game is going fine until the time when the referee ends the fist half. The supporters of Kwara United started intimidating the match official for not give them goal in any means which even took the official of the match about 5 minute before they where taking to dressing room by the escort of the security men.

“Even in the dressing room this supporters were allow to sneak into the room to insult the official with intimidation, which also took them another 30 minutes inside the dressing room before the mach commissioner of the game plead with them to come and continue with the game because already the two teams are waiting in the pitch” Tonga said.

He continue by saying, “when the game continued in the second half they have chance to scored us, and we also equalizer and this is where the problems started. The fans started to throwing bottles water, pure water, stones to the reserve beach of our team, this also force the center referee to stop the game for some minuets again.

“The game end 2-1 and we want to live the stadium but the enforce us also not to go through the proper way but asked us to go in the game that they mount their supporters to attack us, and this is exactly what happens, after we have come to enter our bus the supporters start to stoned us at the result of that the break down our bus glass, stoned the chairman of the club, held us hostage for over 1-30 minutes before the security men come to our rescue, and with all that non of the official of Kwara United even care to called the chairman and know his situation because he was taken to hospital for treatment as the result of huge blood in lost in his body it have to take them hours in the hospital before they can treat him” the Media officer said.

When asked if their was any effort from the men of the securities attached to the stadium, he said, “no any efforts from the securities to help us in that situation, because even the securities are supporting of what is happen to us, because their just there standing and looking what is happen with out any efforts, but we don’t know who called Mobile Police from outside the stadium which they escort us to our hotel, even them when we asked them to help us to take our chairman to the hospital they tell us they don’t have fuel in their car. This to tell you that this the management of the club was aware of what will happen because as I tell you before even now as I am talking to you no body has called us to said sorry even the media officer of the club who is a good friend of mine, this is unfortunate and disgraceful to Nigeria football and Nigeria League particular” he conclude.

Kaduna United said, their going to tender their grievance to the NPL for them to take an appropriate major to the damage they have done to them.