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Sports journalists versus Kano Pillars FC matters arising

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>By Abdulgafar Oladimeji&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"cBFyozw7" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>I have read with dismay the presd statement issued by our great association&comma; SWAN Kano chapter bordering on Kano Pillars FC and its media recalcitrant technical crew led by coach Abdul Maikaba &period; I harbor pains over how one of the best football tactician&comma; well travelled and expose &comma; Abdul Maikaba allowed himself to be dragged to the centre of the brouhaha with sports journalists in Kano&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Maikaba has not acted differently anyway &comma; he is only toeing the path of those before him&comma; like Salisu Yusuf &comma; Ladan Bosso&comma; Okey Emordi&comma; Babaganaru&comma; maybe in exception of Kadiri Ikhana&comma;who sometimes also would&period;not hesitate to display his other side too&period;often too&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;These coaches and their paymasters&comma; during their hey days with the Kano darling side&period; They had prefeered working with journalists based in Abuja or Lagos creating the feelings that SWAN Kano members were second class journalists&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Then and today no SWAN Kano member enjoys direct access to Kano Pillars coaches or players&comma; you had&period;to rely on second hand interviews<br &sol;>&NewLine;The players were&period;mentored to see journalists as their potential destroyers&comma; creating such hoaxes psyche in their camp to shield the world&period;from&period;the truth about their fraudulent dealings with players&period; Who had their salaries shared with some&period;coaches and&period;officlas&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They didn&&num;8217&semi;t want the players to disclose the Alibaba surrounding the transfer and sign on deals associated with their movements in naira and in foreign currency without accountability &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Kano FA that would have helped the state government unravel the lack of transperrancy in the activities in the club&comma; is suffering from one man show&comma; under Sharu Rabiu Inuwa Ahlqn and&period;lack of functional secretariat&comma; which solely should represent the interest of the state government is fast asleep under the supervision of one Shehu Buhari&comma; who had failed to use his executive powers &comma;for reasons best known to him&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"utdLDhmb" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Veteran journalist&period;and system boy&comma; Mailkawa protected them from the dangers of the pen&comma; they now thought &comma; it is their birth right &comma; that is why a simple question put to coach Maikaba &comma; that &&num;8221&semi; why did you change your line up from the previous match &&num;8220&semi;led to his being flared up and he allegedly resorted to raining abuses&comma; because him don see Kano SWAN finish&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;I blame&period;Malikawa and Ado Salisu &comma; they have been protecting the crop of sports administrators and technical crew and coaches &comma; who had been escaping the eagle&period;eyes of&period;sports journalists&comma; &comma; for years&comma; I pray God will grant comrade Zahradeen Saleh and his team the strength to now take SWAN to the promise land&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;You can not hate a child and like the mother&period; If Kano sports writers want to make a strong statement &comma; to be taken serious on their new&period;stance on public interest sports journalism &comma; they should boycot all KPFC activities &comma; they should do so&comma; they should go all out&comma; not half way&comma; no diplomacy&comma;SWAN members are trade unionist not diplomats&comma; boycotting Maikaba alone is lopsided&period; For long KPFC has been taking SWAN members for a prpfessuonal jolly ride&comma; Malikawa was heavily guilty of shielding them from the ills of the pen hammer&comma; this has been ongoing for years&comma; many will testify and are &period;all living witnesses &comma; how Malikawa had used his vast media network to protect Kano Pillars &comma; amd&period;they have decided to hate him for daring to now reverse to do his job by asking the rightful question&comma; that serves him&period;right&comma; because he made them see evil&period;as good&comma; good as evil&comma; not asking relevant question by journalists as their birth right&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Evidence abound&comma; why sports journalists count on their relationship with Malikawa to look the other way &comma; whenever KPFC crossed the red lines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>if SWAN want to make a clear statement &comma; then no half metted punishment&comma; full dish should containing the media orishirishi should be served on KPFC&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Maikaba&period;and his gang should not be singled out secondly a letter should be sent to NPFL through SWAN national secretariat&comma; thirdly no secret truce should be reached on this matter &period; But in all &comma; one or two SWAN members like Malikawa and some others&comma; like Salisu Musa Jegus&comma; Muzamil Dalha Yola and Musibau Bala Chedi Yanguarasa should not be approached secretly as usual and they would start calling for secret truce &comma; you naked me in the market place and you follow me to my bedroom to appease me &comma; imagine&period; SWAN Kano members shine&period;your eyes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The truth hurts oooh&period; But I will male bold to say that the Ibrahim Little KPFC administration has no professional respect or created a cordial working atmosphere for SWAN members and his administration from day one did not extend the fraternal hand of football friendship to SWAN &comma; Mailkawa was&period;tryjng to manage the situation&comma; if you understand&comma; but today the truth is out in the open&comma; Maikaba only acted the scrip of his paymasters&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;SWAN Kano should take up the gauntlet and breath the courage to confront the KPFC paymasters&comma; let SWAN not kill the message&comma; but could kill the messenger&comma; and also remember to kill the sender that is the encoder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A ommittee should be set up to inesvitgate the matter and publish the report of the findings of the committee&comma; I am ready to chair the committee &comma; if given the task&comma; to look&period;at happenings in Kano Pillars fc&comma; in the past&comma; present and way forward&comma; and recommend necessary measures to forestall reoccurrence to the state government and general<br &sol;>&NewLine;public&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;SWAN Kano should&period;go the way of what is known in the legal&period;system as&period;Amicus Curae&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The committee should&period;be mandated to look at Kano Pillars fc finances&comma; recruitment of coaches and players&comma; transfer deals&comma; ticket sales&comma; away matches&comma;&period;sponsorship deals and&period;marketing and the general situation in the club and make recommendations to the state government and general&period;public&comma; telling them what they need to know&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;We have Kano Pillars fc that does not know the difference between sponsorship&comma; patronage and patnership &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Most annoying is the attitude of Kano state government under His Excellency Emg Abba Kabir Yusuf towards the affairs of the club&comma; Kano state government is treating Kano Pillars as the least of all lots&period;of its challenges&comma; that is why Kano Pillars fc will be invited to international&period;meetings to meet with football investors&comma; they will not attend not even to reply such letters of invitation &comma; because they can always ran to Kano government house and they will&period;goven millions of naira&comma; KPFC is now a prey on government meagre resources&comma; even when it has the potentials to generate its own revenue into government coffers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;if other states do not know how&period;to run their football clubs to derive IGR&comma; the incumbent KNSG should light the path&comma;&period;other clubs don&&num;8217&semi;t have the football revenue potentials of Kano Pillars&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;If other states run their club for recreational and public relations purposes&comma; Kano Pillars posses the potentials of achieving everything possible in the football business industry&comma; ask anyone that know football business they will affirm this&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ibrahim Little and his predecessors prey on government monies and even when the insignificant monies generated are been mismanaged SWAN Kano played the Ostrich &comma; it kept quite&comma; even when KPFC brand became a caricature &comma; even in the face of face me I face you football management of the club&comma; even when Alibaba and the 40 thieves managed the affairs of the club&comma; SWAN was asked to remain cool to avoid distracting the players&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Now the bubble has burst &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Warning&comma; with the brewing crisis between KPFC and sports writers in Kano&comma; the father and son relationship between SWAN and KNSG commissoner of information and former president Nigeria Guild of Editors&comma; NGE &comma; a strong supporter of the association&comma; Halilu Babadantiye MNI&comma; may not save the situation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The relationship between SWAN and Ibrahim Garba &comma;&period;the current CPS to Kano deputy governor may not save the situation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Football news travels like wild fire in the wilderness&comma; SWAN members have sharpen their swords &comma; beware of the ides of March&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"dgmkWXyP" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; 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