Delta Queens head coach, Dan Evumena has strongly canvassed for change of headship of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) at the upcoming elections into the board.
The former Nigerian champions finished a distant fourth at the just concluded NWFL Super Six competition in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
Title holders,
Rivers Angels confirmed their supremacy at the four-day event with a 1-0 win against challengers, Bayelsa Queens in the final to claim an unprecedented sixth title.
Evumena who did not hide his discomfort with the programmes of the Super Six as well as the activities of the outgoing board said time is ripe for stakeholders to join hands together to enthrone a viable and virile leadership at the polls.
“Of course, time is ripe for a meaningful change to be effected into the headship of the NWFL.
“And I think the upcoming NWFL election provides genuine stakeholders the rare chance to come out in one accord to disown the incumbent and its allies.
“What we witnessed at the just concluded Super Six competition was a mere sham and I want to believe that the event took place in the first instant because election is around the corner if not the season would have gone unnoticed.
“Even the one staged there was nothing to show among the six teams and officials that the championship was sponsored.
“We heard that Abia State government sponsored the event but until curtain fell on the competition nobody knows its monetary worth or entitlements for the teams as well as winners.
“Nothing whatsoever of provision was made available for the teams and one was left to ask why the secrecy?
“Super Six poor handling is same as the league itself as sponsors have continued to shun the league like plague.
“The out gone league season was a comic-drama of boycotts as teams lacked the necessary fund to prosecute their matches as sponsors of some teams mostly state governments are pulling or withholding fund as they could not march fund with dividend and growth.
“The misdeed of the outgoing board is countless and the only thing stakeholders can do to steady the drifting ship is to shun entreaties and vote massively for change,” said the former Falconets coach to supersport.com.
Team manager of Pelican Queens, Ita Ani equally carpeted the out gone Super Six as shabby and sham saying that the way out of the poor fortune of women football is to change the headship of the NWFL board.
“Imagine what would have happened in a sponsored event if there were to be life-threatening incident as there were no medics, ambulance, policemen around the match venue. It was God’s mercy that nothing untoward happened.
“We were merely inundated that the event was sponsored and question on everybody’s lip was by who and how much as none of the teams felt the impact of sponsorship.
“Worrisome is the fact that the board is not doing anything tangible to develop women football and if they could not do it in four years the sensible thing is to sack them at the upcoming election,” said Ani to supersport.com.
Sunny Iwegbu, the chairman of the South South Women Football Development Association, dubbed the Super Six competition a total failure.
“Super Six was a total failure and it bears negatively on women football generally.
“We played Super Six without ambulance services, medicals, police, public address system, nothing for the teams to cushion the expenses on accommodation, feeding, transportation, among others.
“Nobody knows or told what the sponsorship package was so it’s no surprise that the Nigeria Nationwide League (NNWL) has sponsors and NWFL in the past four years could not attract sponsors.
“The way out of the miseries is for stakeholders to look inward for the right person who will take women football to the next level.
“We will carry a ‘save women football in Nigeria’ campaign to chairmen and stakeholders to do the needful at the polls,” said Iwegbu to supersport.com.
An election into the NWFL board is expected to hold before the year runs out.
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