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.Condemned to remain in exile in Port Harcourt
By George Aluo
Enyimba FC of Aba may turn out to be the biggest loser in the political crisis rocking Abia State, Daily Sunsports can today exclusively reveal.
A top official of the club who didn’t want his name in print confided in Daily Sunsports yesterday that with the governorship crisis rocking Abia state, Enyimba’s dream of staging a return to her Aba home in the on going CAF Champions League campaign has been effectively shattered.
Enyimba it would be noted, has been prosecuting her home games in neighboring Port Harcourt with hopes that her Aba Stadium fortress now undergoing renovation would be ready in time to host her last group stage home tie against South Africa’s Memolodi Sundowns next month.
The bitter Enyimba official disclosed that the state government was on the verge of releasing money to the contractor handling the project when the Abuja court ruling jolted the state.
“As we speak the contractor has not been paid for him to finish the job and from what we gathered from the contractor he would need at least one month to import the artificial grass and lay them. With this crisis, everything points to our remaining in Port Harcourt. The state is in crisis and it is affecting governance. And as things stand, we needed to return home to Aba to play before our fans in the all-important last game against Sundowns which for us is a must win,” the Enyimba official lamented.
Enyimba is already walking a tight rope in the money spinning competition having lost her first two group stage games. The Peoples Elephants fell at home in Port Harcourt to Zamalek before going away to lose 1-2 to Sundowns in Pretoria.
