Nigeria/Gambia: Don’t Go to Banjul for Wafu, Anjorin Warns Maigari

31 March 2011

The leadership of the Nigeria Football federation have been told not to go to Banjul, Gambia for the Extraordinary Congress of West African Football Union (WAFU ) slated for April 7.

The President of the Beninoise Football Federation Mr. Moucharaff Anjorin, who is also the acting WAFU President, said the conveners of the Banjul meeting have something else on their minds other than the progress of the game in the sub region.

Speaking in Ghana where he led his team to the 2012 Nations Cup elimination against Cote Divoire, he said in the absence of the WAFU President Dr. Amos Adamu who is suspended by FIFA, he was the only one authorized by the constitution to summon such a meeting.

“That meeting is a trap. It is unconstitutional and of no effect. I am the only one authorized to summon WAFU meetings for now, in the absence of Dr. Adamu,” Mr. Anjorin said.

He went ahead to point fingers at ” A cabal in the sub region anxious to hijack the leadership of the sub region for selfish political gains.

“They want to capitalize on the absence of Dr. Adamu to seize power in WAFU and use same to pursue their plans of taking over CAF ” he emphasized.

He said he was calling on Nigeria and all other right thinking countries not to succumb to blackmail by going to Banjul because according to him there was no vacancy in WAFU.

“The only reason why Nigeria can go to Banjul, is if they get a guarantee that the leadership of WAFU will be given to them, and I doubt this possibility. Besides, who does not know that without Nigeria WAFU is dead?”

Those in favour of the Banjul meeting claim that Mr. Anjorin called a meeting of WAFU in Sudan yet failed to appear. That the second vice president Mrs. Izetta Wesley of Liberia was no more in office and vacuums exists which must be filled in the interest of football in the sub region, hence the convocation of the Banjul meeting.

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