SWAN Calls For Nationwide Boycott Of NFF Activities Over Exclusion

The nationalist enforcement committee of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has formally mandated its members crossed the state to desist from participating successful oregon covering immoderate activities organised by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). This includes the upcoming Annual General Assembly (AGA) acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Ibadan, Oyo State.

In a connection released connected Wednesday successful Abuja, signed by SWAN President Mr. Isaiah Benjamin and Secretary-General Amb. Ikenna Okonkwo, the Association expressed its displeasure implicit the continuous and deliberate exclusion of SWAN from the indispensable creation of the NFF Congress.

SWAN condemned the actions of the NFF enactment arsenic “unacceptable, retrogressive, and an affront to the relation of the sporting media successful nationalist shot development.”

The Association questioned wherefore the Federation’s enactment has continued to disregard captious issues indispensable for the creaseless advancement of shot successful Nigeria.

“The media plays a captious relation successful the maturation of sports worldwide. As the nonrecreational assemblage managing sports media successful Nigeria, SWAN has consistently engaged with the NFF enactment to reconstruct our rightful presumption wrong its Congress. Regrettably, portion professing to grow its Congress, the Federation has deliberately sidelined us, which is simply a shortsighted and damaging determination for Nigerian football,” the connection read.

SWAN besides noted that contempt their ongoing attempts to found a cooperative narration with the NFF since the existent enactment took charge, the Federation has remained unyielding, employing divisive and destructive tactics successful the absorption of Nigerian football.

The Association pointed retired that Nigeria’s shot show continues to decline, successful spite of important fiscal and organization enactment from the Federal Government, authorities governments, and firm sponsors.

“The persistent diminution of Nigerian shot is simply a nonstop effect of maladministration. It is important to enactment an extremity to this alarming trend. Nigeria cannot spend to spot its beloved athletics deteriorate owed to avoidable circumstances,” the connection asserted.

Furthermore, the Association announced that each SWAN members nationwide refrain from covering oregon promoting immoderate NFF activity, including the Ibadan AGA.

“A task unit volition beryllium established to guarantee strict adherence to this directive, portion the Association initiates a broad probe and nationalist vulnerability of the maladministration and backward practices that person characterised the Federation’s operations, which person led to repeated failures successful World Cup qualification,” the connection added.

SWAN reiterated that the exclusion of the sporting media from the highest decision-making assemblage of Nigerian shot is intolerable and volition nary longer beryllium accepted.

“The Association remains steadfast successful defending its relation arsenic a important stakeholder successful the nation’s shot ecosystem,” it concluded.