….As Gafar Liameed Is Sworn In
The Lagos state Football Association in an extraordinary general assembly held on Saturday at the indoor basket ball court at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos impeached their chairman Oki Fouad and immediately sworn in his former vice, Liameed Gafar as their new chairman.
Oki was booted out on the grounds of misappropriation of funds, high-handedness, gross misconduct, total disregard of critical stakeholders amongst other many breaches levelled against him.
Having read out and quoted sections of their statues that were flagrantly breached and infracted by Oki, a motion was moved for his outright impeachment by the Chairman Badagry division, Dr Osondu Martins which eventually saw 12 out of 12 congress members present at the all-important meeting unanimously voting in favour of the impeachment.
Only two congress members were absent out of the 14 members but the 12 members present were enough to form a quorum and therefore the two absent were not enough to halt the process.
Meanwhile, Oki’s vice chairman, Gafar Liameed who immediately stepped in as the Chairman in accordance with their statues, in his acceptance speech, said it’s not a win but a challenge.
He therefore vowed to run an all inclusive, open and transparent government which will carry every one along and would listen to every member.
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“This is not a win but a challenge Liameed said.
“I will not fail because I have a very experienced board members that are all leaders in their own right
“I will run an all – inclusive, open and transparent association which will carry all stakeholders along and also listen.
“It will not be business as usual but it will be business as normal and the way football business should be done”, he concluded.
The extraordinary general meeting had representatives from the Nigeria football Federation (NFF) that monitored the entire process as observers.
The impeachment of Fouad brings to an end the long standing imbriglio that had engulfed Lagos state FA in the last couple of months.
