Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) stakeholders and followers have been promised season ending matches that will consolidate on the gains made by the reforms instituted by the Interim Management Committee (IMC).
The NPFL season is in its last Matchday in Group A, while Group B has three outstanding games accumulated by title holders Rivers United as a result of their campaign in the CAF Confederation Cup. The IMC still has the Super 6 to prosecute to produce champions and other teams to represent the country in continental competitions next season.
At inauguration last October, the IMC was mandated to ensure a clean up of the NPFL and make it competitive, attractive to corporate support and aligned to the international football calendar.
During a recent internal review session, IMC’s Head of Operations, Davidson Owumi said that part of plan to achieve a season that ends on a high is the setting up of an intensive monitoring team that would be at all the venues.
“We are happy so far with the performance of the clubs, the conduct of majority of our match officials and the fans in most venues.
“But, it’s never perfect and we are working to plug all gaps especially at this last stage when desperation has set in. We have reviewed all outstanding fixtures in relation to how crucial the stakes are to the clubs and we are confident of nipping any misadventure by any club administrator or even our match officials”, he assured.
Against the background of possible compromise of games, he said the IMC is not leaving anything to chance, hence it is working with relevant match security agencies, the club administrators, the Nigeria Referees Association and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
“We have always worked with every organ including the security agencies, the referees body and the NFF to ensure the very best standards are upheld but being the last game of the regular season, we have upped the ante to deliver the very best”, the IMC helmsman assured.
“While it may not be in our interest to disclose all the strategies we have in place, it is also important to make it known that security intelligence unit are already monitoring some clubs officials in high risk games with a view to nipping in the bud any untoward developments”, he further said.
Source: IMC
