The latest
antic by Chris Giwa and his group to continue to lay some claim to leadership
of the Nigeria Football Federation has been blown to smithereens, after the
Federal High Court, Jos disowned the ‘writ of execution’ being bandied by the
group.
In an interview in his office in Jos on
Monday, the Registrar of the Federal High Court, Jos, Mr. Nasiru Gusau said the
document did not emanate from the court.
“We did not issue any writ of execution on
this matter. What you are saying is strange to me,” Gusau told thenff.com on
Monday.
Gusau
explained further: “The Giwa people made an application for writ of execution,
which the court declined. The court cannot execute a declaratory judgment or an
interlocutory order.
“Moreover,
if the case is on appeal, how can the High Court issue a writ of execution?”
It has now
become clear that in their desperation to attain some relevance in Nigeria
football, Giwa and cohorts would stop at nothing, including the ridiculing of
the judiciary.
An undated and completely invalid ‘writ of
execution’ was submitted at the NFF secretariat on Friday, by an Executive
Officer (Accounts) with the Federal High Court, Jos, Langmbweng Enoch Wupeh.
The ‘writ of execution’ was, strangely, prepared and signed by Plaintiff
Counsel (Giwa’s lawyer), and to it was attached only the first two orders made
by the court, leaving out the most recent orders that struck out the first two,
as well as the Hon. Judge’s clarification. The signature of a ‘Judge’ (no name)
was poorly forged.
Gusau had
earlier clarified the interim order made by the court on 8th April, saying the
court only re-listed the Giwa case for hearing and never said Giwa should
assume leadership of the NFF. The Honourable Judge M. H. Kurya himself
clarified the order he gave, dated 14th April 2016, while delivering his ruling
on the application by NFF for leave to appeal.
Giwa and members of his group, emboldened by
the sham document, invaded the NFF Secretariat on Friday afternoon with a
number of thugs, but were repelled by NFF Staff and sent away by the police.
After its 25
–minute misadventure at the Glass House, the Giwa group issued a self –deluding
statement that it had ‘taken over’ the NFF.
The invasion came only 24 hours after a peace
meeting ordered by the Nigeria Parliament. Deputy Chairman of the House
Committee on Sports (which is saddled with the responsibility), Rt. Hon. Anayo
Nebe, at the weekend expressed huge disappointment with the Giwa group’s
action.
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