NSC And Its Unfulfilled Promises To Supporters Club

By Tolu Atobatele

The inability of National Sports Commission to fulfill its promises to the Nigeria Football and other Sports Supporters Group, NFSSG has place the club in a very difficult situation in making a proper logistical arrangements for club members anytime there is a national assignments to attend.

The Sports Commission headed by Alhaji Shehu Dikko and its Director General Bukola Olopade have not shown enough commitment towards the promises of seeing to the welfare of Nigeria Football and other Sports Supporters Group in terms of providing financial support to eaze the burden of the club.

The supporters club play a major role in our football sector having been around for decades and contributing in no small measures making the country proud and being good ambassadors of the country through supporting the national teams in both local and international sports gathering the country take part in.

The inattentive and cunning nature of the sports commission towards the supporters club clearly shows a lack of respect for the body and signal a bad breath on the part of government.

The last match in Bloemfontein against South Africa was a show of shame on the part of the sports commission as they renege on their words of airlifting members of the club to the venue of the game while allocation of slots for seats on the chattered flight to South Africa and previous venues of away games to members of the club were ridiculous and unimpressive.

The deceitful confidence trick of the sports commission is causing a lot of discomfort to supporters club thereby, hindering their progress and jeopardizes their presence at match venues in large numbers. To say the supporters club will fare better and perform tremendously when they disperse to their various structures is an understatement.

Enough of fake promises and rigid handling of issues of national interest. The sports commission must stand up to its responsibility, be transparent enough and respect the stakeholders who spend their monies and resources to promote football during good and bad times.

It is noteworthy to know that since the sports commission don’t find it worthy to stand up to their promises which was the primary reason the various group of supporters club accept and gave their consents to the idea of harmonizing their structures into one body, then, they should hands off and let the club return to their previous structures to continue ruining and managing their affairs individually.

The last two games of the qualifiers for the world cup will hold next month (October) with the first of the games coming up in Bloemfontein, South Africa against the Crocs of Lesotho and having a large presence of supporters club in the stands to cheer and motivate the team on Match day will be an important factor in the outcome of the game, hence, the call on sports commission to either fulfil their promises or allow them to go back to how they met them before things become worse.

The inability of National Sports Commission, NSC in fulfilling the promises made to supporters club prior to the harmonization of the various factional groups into a unified body has put the club in a very difficult situation in making a proper logistical arrangements for members whenever their is a national assignments and this, do not augur well for the club.