1. In August 2014, just before the NFF congress in Warri, two men, Ogba and Idama went to court stopping the Warri congress on the grounds that there cannot be another election or congress in Warri when there was one earlier conducted at the Chida hotel in Abuja.
2. The court passed an order, stopping former NFF president Aminu Maigari and his general secretary Musa Amadu from conducting the elections but both individuals went ahead with the congress on the grounds that they never saw a court order stopping the process.
3. That process or congress as the case may be, brought in the Amaju Pinnick led board, meaning that the board as presently constituted are not parties to the case because they didn't conduct the elections themselves. So what this means is that they were not party to the initial case.
4. Thesame men ( Ogba and Idama) went to a federal high court again and asked the court to declare the September 30 election illegal, null and void on the grounds that there was a standing court order restraining the process and the court listened to their prayers and (declared the September 30 warri elections nullified). Meanwhile, we are not sure if the court ordered that Giwa should take over based on the Chida mandate.
If they did, then that prayers is what they, Giwa and his gang are claiming today, after the Supreme Court ruling.
5. Now, the Pinnick board got involved for the first time as they had to fight to keep their mandate so they ran to president Good luck Jonathan to seek his quick intervention, on the grounds that if something urgent was not done, FIFA will ban Nigeria.
President Jonathan didn't want a FIFA ban which could lead to youth agitation and cause serious crisis in the land with just few months to the general elections, so he quickly invited both parties to a round table discussion and pleaded they settle all contending issues out of court.
Obinna Ogba and Idama, both members of the Giwa board were then advised to withdraw the case from court which they did.
6. Jonathan contested and lost the elections so the the DSS, the SGF, the former sports minister Danagogo and all others privy to the terms of the agreements reached at that meeting were no more, so the Pinnick board played a fast one and refused to keep to the agreements they had with Giwa.
7. This forced the Giwa team to return to the federal high court to get the case relisted with all the branches included. Now what are the branches? They are
A. Declare the process that brought in Pinnick and his board illegal and nullify the September 30, 2014 NFF elections
B. Declare Chris Giwa the self acclaimed winner of the Chida election as substantive president of the NFF.
8. The federal high court sitting in Jos, answered these prayers and ruled accordingly as Giwa immediately occupied the glass house for a second time.
9. The NFF were thrown aback by this ruling and had to fight back so they went to the appeal court to appeal the ruling and got a favourable order which is, that the federal high court had no powers to relist a case earlier withdraw from court and therefore, the appeal court declared the ruling of the federal high court as null and void and quashed all the existing orders which are in number 7A and 7B above.
10. The Giwa team were unrelenting so they proceeded to the Supreme Court brandishing the following prayers.
A. They asked the Supreme Court to declare Giwa the authentic NFF president
B. Upturn the decisions of the Appeal court that ruled that the High court erred in relisting the case
C. They asked the court to pronounce that the orders made by the high court stands
11. Among these three prayers put forward before the Supreme court, only number 2 was approved which means that the Supreme court never declared him the authentic NFF president or stampped the orders of the high court.
Instead of approving the number 3 request, the Supreme Court ordered both parties ( Maigari & Musa Amadu VS idama and Ogba) to return to the high court and start the case afresh in what the SC described as accelerated judgement.
Now, remember that the case as it was before and after it was relisted, had thesame prayers that the Supreme Court chief judge failed to approve in 11A and 11C above.
So the message is clear, the Supreme Court has only asked that the matters be heard from its foundation and there were no orders asking Pinnick and his board to leave.
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