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By Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Chairman Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), Gbenga Elegbeleye, has threatened to quit his position should the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) do anything to make him compromise his integrity.
Elegbeleye issued the threat while recalling the nasty incident that culminated in leaving his position as the Director-General National Sports Commission (NSC), due to a running battle with then Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Tammy Danagogo in 2015.
Responding to the question of whether he will quit if confronted with a similar situation, during the inauguration of his committee by the president of NFF, Ibrahim Musa Gusau, he said that maintaining standards is in his DNA.
He said; “I left them because it bothers on integrity and compromise. I want to say that if I face a similar situation that confronted me at the NSC where anybody wants me to compromise I will quit as I did then.
“Integrity and resistance to compromise are in my DNA and I cannot change to please anybody or make a name in a wrong way,” he warned the Nigerian football managers.
Earlier in his acceptance speech, he had challenged all the stakeholders in the Nigerian league, urging them to deploy all machinery in ensuring that the league is repositioned according to international best practices.
