Sunshine Deny Molesting Shooting -Want Lam-Adeshina Sanctioned A war of words is spreading between Sunshine Stars of Akure and Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan (3SC) over last weekend’s abandoned Glo Premier League match in the Ondo State capital, with the host club now declaring emphatically that they are not to blame for the development. While exonerating his club from any negligence that occasioned the ugly chain of incidents and eventual cancellation of the game at Akure Township Stadium on Sunday, Sunshine Stars media officer, John Abalaka has issued a statement denying the fracas. Abalaka’s rebuttal came in the wake of media reports that fans of Sunshine Stars allegedly beat up Oyo State commissioner for sports, Dapo Lam-Adeshina during the game. At the same time, the Akure club’s supervising body, Ondo State Football Agency (OSFA) has called on the League Management Company (LMC) to impose stiff sanctions on Shooting Stars and Lam-Adeshina for allegedly bringing the game into disrepute. In a statement signed by OSFA public relations officer, Adewumi Johnson, the body insists the management of 3SC and the commissioner should be held responsible for the aborted Week 30 match at Akure Township Stadium, stressing that the visitors’ game plan was to cause confusion with the intention of benefiting free points. According to Johnson, if Adeshina had no ulterior motive he would have announced his presence at the stadium so that he could be accorded a VIP status and made to seat with his colleagues at the VIP stand. “If the commissioner hadn’t an ulterior motive, he shouldn’t have sat where he seated in the first instance. Even at that, when his player, Gbolahan Salami went to our bench after their goal, fighting with our team manager, what he did to stop him,” he queried. The OSFA media man added that the hosts ought to have protested the choice of match commissioner, being a former player of 3SC, but because they were confident of victory, they did not. “We should be the one to complain because the Match Commissioner, Patrick Pascal, was a former player of 3SC but we didn’t. At the pre-match meeting, there was no indication that he was coming. “We have drawn three matches at home and nobody was molested, so why 3SC, which we are leading? It’s clear that they deliberately caused problem because they have big men in the corridor of power. “We hear they have been boasting that the NFF organizing and disciplinary committee chairman, Leye Adepoju and Tunde Aderibigbe, a member of the committee are from Oyo State, that even the Commissioner boasted that the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi is his father’s boy and together, they will work to 3SC’s favour. “But we have the rules, we don’t exploit our top people in government and we are calling on the LMC to apply the rule to the letter,” Johnson submitted.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:59:54 +0000
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