Deposed chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), Victor Baribote Rumson, has challenged the change of name for the nation's top flight.
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The League Management Committee (LMC) changed the name of the elite division from the NPL to the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).
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"Did the congress sanction the change of name from the Nigeria Premier League (NPL)?" queried the owner of Nembe City FC.
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"Only the congress consisting of the 20 Premier League clubs can approve such a change because the league is owned by the clubs and not appointed officers."
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Baribote also challenged the legality of the LMC while talking.
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He said that the setting up of the LMC to run the league contradicts FIFA and CAF statutes which the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) operates within.
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"There are laws guiding football. This same laws or statutes are same that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) operates within as we have in Fifa and Caf statutes. I don't know where an interim committee is provided for in those statutes to run the league. But because some people don't like the face of Chief Baribote so I was eased out. I know the statutes provide for a league body headed by the first vice president of the football federation but some people have brought ethnic sentiments into our football.
I am with Baribote on this one. He is absolutely right to not like the name change. So many people feel it wasn't necessary