Again, Maigari returns as NFF president

The season of long knife continued in the Nigeria Football Federations (NFF), as impeached president Aminu Maigari is set to return to office as president of the federation on Monday, August 18.

The sports minister, Tammy Danagogo, confirmed the development on Friday.

Before this announcement, acting NFF president, Mike Umeh, was fully in charge and only on Thursday called on the media to stop misinterpreting a letter received from world football governing body, FIFA, purportedly ordering Aminu Maigari back to office.

Maigari had submitted a letter of resignation dated August 12, but a letter from world football governing body FIFA called for the board to be reconstituted the way it was before the 2014 World Cup, and for him to preside over the General Assembly.

FIFA, through Deputy Secretary-General Markus Kattner questioned the removal of Maigari, saying it “didn’t comply with some statutory provisions (e.g. deadlines for the convocation of the meeting and for the sending of the agenda).”

In a new twist to the tale, Danagogo confirmed Maigari will be returned as president of the NFF after he was sacked by the executive committee in July 24.

“He (Maigari) will return to office on Monday as president of the NFF,” Danagogo said.

“All parties have agreed to return him even before the letter from FIFA came.”

Mike Umeh and other ‘coup plotters’ will know their fate in the new dispensation after Maigari resumes.