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Plateau United denies attack on centre referee

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8 years ago

January 15, 2019

Editor

The management of Plateau United Football Club of Jos has denied reports making the rounds that her supporters attacked centre referee, Sam Agba during their the Nigeria Professional Football League matchday one tie against Ifeanyi Uba of Nnewi at the new Jos Stadium on Sunday.

The Media Officer of the Club, Albert Dakup told National Daily that the report is not only baseless, but a calculated attempt aimed at not only tarnishing the image of the club and General Manager, Pius Henwan and the Club, but a calculated attempt by mischief makers to portray the club before the general public.

Dakup explained that immediately after the match when angry fans attempted to invade the pitch in an attempt to gain access to the match officials, security agents including the Special Task Force in the state code-named “Operation Safe Haven” were at hand to restore normalcy and even escorted the centre referee and other match officials to the dressing room.

He noted that the General Manager of the Club and the Chairman, Plateau State Football Association (PFA) Sunday Longbap not only assisted the match officials to get to the dressing room safely, they also made sure the match officials left the stadium unharmed.

The statement wondered why the authors of the malicious reports peddled around cannot verify issues and separate fact from fiction before going to press.

Apart from ensuring that match officials left the stadium unharmed, the General Manager of the club also ensured that they got to their hotel safely and personally saw them off to their various destinations on Monday morning.

The club appealed to the members of the fourth estate of the realm to cross-check their reports before going to the press in order not to feed members of the public with half-truth