AGF to harmonise petitions against NFF, as Obono-Obla is declared wanted

In view of the several duplication of the allegations, court cases and petitions against officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) is to have all cases and petitions against the Federation and its officials harmonized for an independent review by office of AGF, to determine the veracity or otherwise of these  issues,National Daily learnt.

The office of the AGF is also currently reviewing a petition concerning the fact that the cases and petitions against NFF spread across all investigative agencies are similar, from the same petitioners/witnesses and against the same persons.

These were the submission of the counsel from the Office of the AGF at the Federal Capital Territory High Court on Tuesday 22nd, October 2019 when the court resumed hearing on an application for amendment brought by the counsel to the  EFCC to have the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick and the General Secretary, Dr, Mohammed Sanusi, removed as witnesses from the original charge and joined in the case as defendants before the court.

The presiding Judge, Justice Peter Affem, gave the Office of the AGF, till 16th December, 2019 to decide on what next to be done and come back to inform the court.

Meanwhile, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared the former Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, wanted.

Obono-Obla is wanted by the ICPC due to “his repeated failure to appear before it to answer questions bordering on allegations faud and corruption.”

The former presidential aide, according to ICPC, is facing a series of allegations levelled against him by members of the public on his role as head of the government panel on asset recovery.