Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Football Association (FCTFA), Alhaji Musa Saeed Talle, has said his signature on the appeal the Chris Giwa faction sent to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was forged.
Talle also disassociated himself and his FA from the appeal filed by some Football Associations’ Chairmen to CAS on FIFA’s earlier plan to sanction Nigeria over the occupation of the NFF secretariat by the Giwa factional executives.
“My name and signature was appended as one of the FA chairmen that filed the appeal on behalf of the Chris Giwa-led group. I want to state categorically that I had no prior knowledge of such an appeal, and at no time did anyone discuss such an issue with me, neither did I sign any document of such for anybody,” Talle said in Abuja on Thursday.
“I want the general public to disregard the appendage of my name and signature in the document as they are forged, and do not represent my intention, nor that of my FA.
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“In as much as my FA frowned at the recent impasse that had engulfed Nigeria football, we would not tolerate any attempt by any group to drag our name to any issue we are not part of.
“We would therefore not stop at whatever level to seek redress on such issues. We further appeal to all affiliates of FIFA to adhere strictly to its dictates and statutes as it’s done all over the world over,” he said.
Enugu State FA chairman Chidi Ofo Okenwa also denied being a party to the appeal.
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Okenwa was one of eight persons listed as an appellant, but he has not only dissociated himself from it, but he has sworn to an affidavit at the Federal High Court in Enugu against “gross falsehood against my name and person in a matter before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on request for provisional measures against FIFA on the state of Nigerian football”.
Efforts to reach Chris Giwa and his ally, Victor Baribote, for clarification proved futile.
CAS on Tuesday rejected the appeal saying “it was without object at this stage.”
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