It didn't come as much surprise the surreptitious attempts by some group to engineer confusion and derail the planned reform of the Nigeria Professional Football League which only recently emerged from years of the worst kind of self- inflicted disruption. As one who has extensive knowledge of the in-fighting that ruined the management of the league these past four years, the appointment of the 13-member Interim Management Committee was an insightful step towards resolving the league crisis.
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I found myself agreeing with the Honourable Sports Minister and dropped my suspicion of his earlier motives for insisting on the sacking of the Chief Victor Rumson Baribote-led Board of the now defunct Nigeria Premier League (NPL) or is it Nigeria Football League (NFL) Limited Board.
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While the membership of the committee seems unwieldy, the quality and pedigree of the persons can hardly be faulted. The significance of their resource capacity can be gleaned in the report published recently detailing their destination and roadmap. For the first time since the inception of what has been tagged Premier League in the country, a direct attempt at administering football as a commercial venture has been presented. But it is natural to resist change especially by a few who has held the system hostage and feeding filthy fat on the sweat of young Nigerians.
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Let us examine the issues that seem to have been contentious starting with the alarm raised over the incorporation of the League Management Company (LMC). What emerges from most of the submissions made on social media is the question of 'who granted the promoters of LMC the mandate to hold shares in trust for the clubs'? The second that has been raised is about the ownership of the LMC.