IMC chairman reveals his group’s plan to go big on Nigeria professional football league
By Rasheed Adewuyi
Nigeria Professional Football League ( NPFL) winner for the 2022/2023 season will go home happy with a whopping hundred million naira booty.
The Interim League Committee( IMC) Chairman, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye who made this known at a press conference held on the Zoom app on Tuesday, revealed that plans are already being finalized to expand the amount of matches shown on TV and to sign new contracts with more Television stations to allow more Nigerians to watch the league.
“Part of our plan is to make sure that the least paid Nigerian player take home is one million naira monthly in the nearest future, ” Elegbeleye said.
Davidson Owumi, head of operations of the Committee clarified that the present NPFL structure is not self-driven but is an organization.
On the venue of the Super six, Owumi said “No location has been chosen for the competition. However, we would like to see how the season progresses and the commercial viability of the project before choosing a venue. Abuja and Lagos are the provisional venues in our minds.”
IMC partner, GTI Executive Director Mr. Nelson Ire, said his company will not relent in its efforts in bringing order, discipline, and competitive balance amongst the football clubs, as well as an adequate publicity for the league.
Nelson highlighted what his company hopes to achieve in the future, “We project in 4, 5 years there will be a change of owners using the system of substitution and elimination. Nobody will tell the state government not to own clubs based on the template we are running. We hope to bring a downward trend to the administrative and management conflicts, poor officiating and bad security at match venues.”
The IMC replaced the League Management Committee (LMC) which was declared illegal by the Sports Minister in December 2022.
