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Kano Pillars Football Club General Manager, Ahmed Musa, has issued a heartfelt apology to Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan pursuing the convulsive attacks connected its players and officials pursuing a Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) clash connected Sunday astatine the Sani Abacha Stadium successful Kano.
In a connection posted connected his verified Facebook leafage Sunday night, the erstwhile Super Eagles skipper described the incidental arsenic “heartbreaking, shameful, and wholly unacceptable,” stressing that it does not bespeak the values oregon arrogant past of the Kano-based club.
He extended “an unreserved apology” to the players, coaches, and supporters of Shooting Stars, arsenic good arsenic to the referees, league officials, and shot fans who watched the convulsive scenes with “anger, shock, and disappointment.”
“Violence has nary spot successful football. It is unacceptable, unjustifiable, and goes against everything this beauteous athletics stands for,” the connection read. “Football is meant to unite, to inspire, to bring joy. When it turns into scenes of chaos and harm, we indispensable not unreal it away, we indispensable face it head-on.”
Musa assured that the nine would cooperate afloat with information agencies and league authorities to place and punish each those progressive successful the onslaught connected Shooting Stars players and lucifer officials.
“We recognize that apologies unsocial are not enough. Words indispensable beryllium followed by action,” helium stated. “We volition instrumentality a immense measurement internally to guarantee that thing similar this ne'er happens again.”
Addressing the club’s supporters directly, the Kano Pillars GM urged them to explicit their passionateness peacefully and responsibly, noting that existent loyalty is demonstrated done “respect, passion, and discipline.”
“Kano Pillars is simply a arrogant nine with a affluent legacy, and you are the heartbeat of this club. But existent enactment is shown not done violence, but done respect, passion, and discipline,” Musa said.
He reaffirmed the club’s committedness to restoring trust, respect, and the tone of sportsmanship. “To the NPFL, to Shooting Stars, to the referees, to the fans of Nigerian football, and to anyone who believes successful the tone of the game, we are sorry. I americium sorry.
“We instrumentality afloat work and volition bash everything indispensable to reconstruct trust, respect, and the existent tone of shot successful Kano and crossed Nigeria,” helium emphasised.
LEADERSHIP reports that the apology comes soon aft convulsive fans invaded the transportation astatine the Sani Abacha Stadium pursuing a precocious 94th-minute equalizer by Shooting Stars, assaulting lucifer officials and players successful scenes that person drawn outrage and condemnation.
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