Maigari’s resignation was Forged – Aide

The letter stated that Maigari had decided to resign from office to enable peace return to the Nigerian football system. The letter dated August 12, 2014, also indicated that Maigari would not contest for any elective office when the elections are held for the NFF executive committee. But that letter has become a subject of serious allegations against the top officials of the sports ministry bothering on forgery and manipulation.Friends and aides of Maigari have stated that the sports ministry officials deleted a key word with a pen which changed the true wording of the letter. An aide of the NFF president who called The PUNCH on Tuesday told our correspondent that the word “elective” was deleted from the letter in a bid to mislead the public.

He said, “What we have is a clear case of forgery; this is not fair and unbecoming of people in such position of authority. What Maigari wrote in his letter was that he would no longer contest and was resigning but clearly stated that it would be after the elective congress.

“By deleting the key word, they fraudulently gave the impression that his resignation took effect from Monday but that’s not true. The ploy is to ensure that he did not preside over the meeting of Tuesday or the one leading to the election. That word was cancelled with a pen and that is forgery and criminal.”

The SA to sports minister, Omorodion told The PUNCH that he could not say anything about the deleted word as he sent out a letter as he received it.

“The key thing is that Maigari resigned. I can’t say much about that aspect of the letter because the meeting was held between the minister and Maigari alone. So I would not know if Maigari cancelled that part himself when the minister drew his attention to the word because he was supposed to have resigned before now going by the agreement reached.