The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed utter displeasure over the failure by the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) board to carry the Federation along in its recent sponsorship bid round.
On Thursday, the NPL announced that it had sealed a sponsorship deal with telecommunications giant MTN, worth the sum of N2.65 billion over four years.
However, in a statement on Friday, the Nigeria Football Federation, the supreme authority for all matters relating to football in the country, described as “unacceptable” the decision by the NPL board to go contrary to the standard norms and protocols which such an issue demanded, insisting that the matter could have benefitted from the the Federation’s input and advice.
The NFF also observed that owing to the unresolved leadership issues at the Nigeria Premier League, on which the Federation is expected to make a pronouncement soon, it would have been advisable for the NPL to defer matters involving long-term sponsorship relationships/agreements/deals with third parties, until the NFF’s decision on the leadership question.
The Federation went ahead to express strong reservations about the announcement of a long-term relationship with a corporate body by a leadership that still has issues around its neck.
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