In a season when referees in the country are getting commendations for improved officiating, there is someone not pleased with them at the moment and that is the chairman of Wikki Tourists Football Club who believed their poor show has contributed to his team's woes this season, Nigeriasoccernet.com gathered.
Alhaji Balarabe Yusuf ‘Douglas’, the chairman of the Northern club also alleged that dirty politics by those he tagged enemies of Governor Bala Mohammed and bad officiating are responsible for the crisis that has hit the club in recent times.
As gathered from Dailytrust, Yusuf while speaking during a media parley said the club is yet to formally receive the resignation of its ‘former’ manager, Abdullahi Adamu as the club chairman insisted that he and members of the club’s board only saw his resignation letter on social media.
“The truth of the matter is that politics, not just football politics but dirty partisan politics by some elements, has infiltrated the activities of Wikki Tourists. If you watched Wikki matches last season and this season, you would notice differences. This season you will be angry because referees cheated us in unlike last season when we didn’t even have quality players. We had good goals disallowed by referees," he said.
“Another tactic employed by the elements was deploying some people to cause trouble during our home matches so that we can be banned from our home.
“We have discovered some of the elements behind the plans to tarnish Wikki Tourists but I will not mention them now, especially those behind the last attack. They were inside the stadium when the unfortunate incident happened.
“They were eager to attack the referee so that the situation would escalate with a view to tarnishing the image of the Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed,” Yusuf concluded on the matter.
Wikki Tourist lost their last league at home 2-1 to Bayelsa United and are in danger if relegation as they presently occupy the 9th place of the 10 teams group B log.
They visit high flying Doma United on Sunday.
By Oluwayemi Omolagba