Kwara FA inaugurates Electoral, Appeal Committees

Inauguration
By Olayinka Owolewa
Ilorin, Jan. 8, 2019 (NAN) The Kwara Football Association on Tuesday in Ilorin inaugurated Electoral and Appeal Committees for its forthcoming board elections.

While inaugurating the two committees, Chairman of the FA, Busari Ishola, charged them to organise credible elections which would usher in new board members before the end of February.

He said members of the committees were carefully chosen based on their integrity and connections to football.

“All guidelines set up by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) were followed in the processes leading to the formation of the committees,’’ Ishola added.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the five-man Electoral Committee has as its chairman a one-time Chairman of Kwara FA, Saliu Ojibara.

The other members are Olayiwola Ayinde, Abdulwaheed Bibire who is the State Chairman of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Sulaiman Warah and a former Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Anthony Towoju.

Emmanuel Obafemi is Chairman of the three-man Appeal Committee, which also has Serah Esan, a former Director of Sports in the state, and Prof. Gafar Ijaiya of the University of Ilorin.

The Secretary of the FA, Taofeek Ahmed, will serve as Secretary to the two committees.

Ojibara, while speaking on behalf of his committee, commended the FA, saying the general concern was to take Kwara football to greater heights.

Also, Obafemi assured that the committee would give its best in carrying out the assignment.(NAN)
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(Edited by Shittu Obassa and Olawale Alabi)