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NFF PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT’S CLUB THROWN OUT OF THE LEAGUE!

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Bimo FC of Lafia, the amateur club owned by Chinedu Okoye, one of the four contestants for in Thursday’s NFF presidential elections, has been thrown out of the Nigerian league.

Bimo FC of Lafia reportedly said it would boycott the remaining matches of the Nigeria National League (NNL) season pending the determination of its petition to FIFA and Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on poor officiating in the league.

It carried out the threat and had boycotted three consecutive league matches. It is not clear what effect the sanction will have on the club’s proprietor’s fortunes in the NFF election on Thursday.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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