The call for Private club owners in Nigeria to butch the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) and form an independent league is generating mixed reactions as different stakeholders bear their minds on the propose Nigeria Private Investors Football League (NPIFL).
Gafar Liameed, Chairman 36 Lion football club.
One of such stakeholders is the Chairman of 36 Lion football club, Gafar Liameed who posit that he is averse to the creation of a breakaway league. Addressing the issue on the foremost Whatsapp platform NSM Rebranded, Hajji Gafar, as he is fondly called, question the rational behind such move.
"I never for once support the idea of a Private League. What I said was that it is an interesting idea and then asked what type of license are the conveyors of this idea seeking from Nigeria Football Federation (NFF); a Recreational or a Professional League license?
Will NFF give a Professional league license that will contravene NPFL and NNL? I don't think so.
Gafar, a renown grassroots football promoter assert that consolidating on current achievement would benefit Nigerian football more rather depleting the existing structure.
"Breaking away to form a Private League because we are not getting our investment's value is not a good idea.
We must also know that FIFA allows only one Professional league per country.
Most of (us) private clubs are not fully professional yet so now do we want to leave our semi professional status and become amateurs?."

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