{"id":215317,"date":"2022-09-08T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=215317"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:15:11","slug":"nff-presidency-ive-no-preferred-candidate-says-pinnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/08\/nff-presidency-ive-no-preferred-candidate-says-pinnick\/","title":{"rendered":"NFF Presidency: I\u2019ve no preferred candidate, says Pinnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mr Amaju Melvin Pinnick, has charged frontline candidates for this month\u2019s NFF presidential election to conduct rancour-free, exemplary electioneering campaigns even as they seek the highest football-administration seat in the land.<\/p>\n<p>Pinnick who met with the trio Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, Mallam Shehu Dikko and Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, who have all obtained forms to contest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/08\/pinnick-reveals-why-he-will-step-down-as-nff-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFF presidency<\/a> at the September 30, 2022 NFF Elective Congress slated for Benin City, Edo State, said he had no special candidate for presidential election and urged them to seek for votes in a most decent and respectable manner, and not invoke the spirit of do-or-die for the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have called this meeting to assure you all that I do not have a candidate in this race. Each and every one of you is my candidate because we worked and walked together in the past eight years, seeking the best for Nigeria Football. I believe that you are all aiming for the position in order to be able to consolidate on the little gains that we were able to make and to preserve or even surpass our legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge you all to go about the campaigns with utmost decency, avoid any form of acerbic outpourings and remember that we all belong to the same family that worked for the best interests of Nigeria\u2019s football for the past eight years. 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