{"id":22769,"date":"2013-02-08T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/afcon-supporters-club-at-war\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:41:00","slug":"afcon-supporters-club-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/08\/afcon-supporters-club-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon: Supporters club at war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_wrap fix\" readability=\"39.594545454545\">\n<div class=\"entry_content\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>By Tony Ubani<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Football Supporters Club are at war in South Africa as they prepare to drum support for the Super Eagles in their quest of wresting the Nations Cup trophy from Burkina Faso tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The bone of contention is the struggle over which sponsor to support, Globacom or Guinness, a transfer of the power tussle in their botched election of national officers recently.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85984\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone c14\" readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2010\/07\/ban-on-eagles-supporters-club-pleads-for-a-rethink\/sport-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85984\" alt=\"Nigeria Football Supporters Club in South Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/eaa8SPORT.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigeria Supporters Club in South Africa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the centre of the struggle is the Dr. Rafiu Ladipo faction and Vincent Okumagba-led group who are angling to take over the leadership of the club from Dr. Ladipo<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the Okumagba group are insisting on wearing the apparel of Guinness as that is the firm that sponsored them to South Africa while Dr. Ladipo wants them to put on their Globacom regalia.Globacom did not support them this time.<\/p>\n<p>With this situation, it is certain the support for the Eagles on Sunday will not be one of unity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p><noscript readability=\"1.15625\"><\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">blog comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Tony Ubani The Nigerian Football Supporters Club are at war in South Africa as they prepare to drum support for the Super Eagles in their quest of wresting the Nations Cup trophy from Burkina Faso tomorrow. The bone of contention is the struggle over which sponsor to support, Globacom or Guinness, a transfer of the power tussle in their botched election of national officers recently. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}