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Board members of Bauchi State Football Association addresses journalists
By Akanji Olowolodu, Bauchi
A leadership crisis has engulfed Bauchi State Football Association (BFA) as four Board members on Thursday passed a ‘Vote of no Confidence’ on the Chairman of the Association, Patrick Paschal, a former Nigerian international footballer.
The Four Board members led by Usman Abass Shehu while briefing Journalists at the NUJ Press Center thereby announced his removal as Chairman replacing him with the Vice Chairman, Adamu Umar Madachi as Acting Chairman.
The Four Board members indicted Patrick Paschal of “high headedness, exclusion and breaching of many provisions of the Statute of the Association”.
They accused him of running the Association as his personal property as he has refused to call for a general Congress since they were elected in June 2019.
They also accused him of not carrying other members along in the running of the affairs of the Association citing examples with a few competitions he singlehandedly organized claiming that it was done by the FA after he had initially informed them that it was sponsored by Prof Suleiman Bogoro and later an unnamed Naval Officer.
While reacting to the development, Patrick Paschal dismissed his purported removal as a joke and the figment of the imagination of the four board members.
According to him, “They said that they removed me, I am presently in the office working. Those four board members have been removed during a Congress we had yesterday (Wednesday). The Congress is above any person.”
He boasted that nobody can remove him as the Chairman of the Association without following the due process laid down in the Statutes of the Association.
Patrick Paschal dismissed all the allegations against him describing them as baseless and unfounded stressing that they cannot be substantiated.
