By femi Atolagbe
|Elections into the new board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will hold on September 30, 2022 in Edo State.
The development was gathered during the 2022 NFF’s Annual General Assembly holding in Lagos where the Electoral and Appeal Committees were set up ahead of the September 30 elections.
The Annual General Assembly held Thursday marked an end to Amaju Malvin Pinnick’s eight year reign as President of Nigeria’s apex football body as he declared before the Congress that he would not run again.
“The new election date is a 10-day elongation as September 30th is fixed for the NFF elections. Meanwhile, the Elective Congress scheduled to hold on September 20 as the Pinnick board was elected in 2018.
The 44-man Congress rejected October 20th which was the proposed as the election date, but the Congress adopted the original date, September 30th.