NCF Board Elections: Onyeama Threatens Legal Action Against NSC Over Disqualification

The president of the FCT Cricket Association, Engineer Emeka Onyeama, has threatened to instrumentality the National Sports Commission (NSC) to tribunal implicit his alleged disqualification from the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) committee elections, arsenic determined by the electoral committee.

The electoral committee, chaired by J.J. Usman (SAN), revealed the names of 16 eligible candidates for the upcoming elections yesterday. Among them is the incumbent President of the NCF, Uyiosa Akpata. However, the committee announced that 3 candidates—Emeka Onyeama, Pakribo Telema Darego, and Chimezie Onwuzilike—submitted their information forms aft the stipulated deadline, thereby rendering them ineligible to enactment successful the electoral process.

Dissatisfied with this decision, Onyeama, a erstwhile president of the NCF, stated that helium has issued a pre-action announcement to the NSC, accusing it of facilitating electoral malpractice successful the lead-up to the 2025 NCF elections.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP Sports, Onyeama described his disqualification, on with that of the different candidates, arsenic an unconstitutional and orchestrated effort to clasp the existent NCF enactment successful power.
He further accused the NSC of enabling the incumbent NCF President, Uyi Akpata, to allegedly manipulate the electoral process to his advantage—specifically by appointing an electoral committee apt to favour his continued presidency.

“This is precisely what I person been informing astir for immoderate clip now. The incumbent president has established an electoral committee that is designed to guarantee his instrumentality to power. This is akin to being a justice successful one’s ain case, which is fundamentally untenable successful law,” Onyeama asserted.

“Historically, erstwhile the tenure of sports federation boards expires, the Sports Ministry—now the NSC—dissolves each boards and appoints electoral committees to oversee caller committee elections. Yet, we are present witnessing the existent boards, whose tenures person agelong lapsed, remaining successful bureau and conducting their ain elections.

“I person issued a pre-action announcement to the NSC, and if they neglect to rectify this anomaly and injustice, I volition situation them successful tribunal to support the integrity of our sports.”