The board of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) chaired by Victor Baribote was on Monday sacked by the NPL Congress.
In the interim, the affairs of the secretariat will be run by Executive Secretary, Tunji Babalola.
The congress proposed February 16 as date of commencement of the new season, and in addition endorsed the hosting of the Super Four preseason tournament in Kano State. It equally overturned the expulsion of Ocean Boys Football Club from the league.
The decisions are expected to be upheld when the Congress of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) holds on Thursday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Of the 20 NPL clubs, only Niger Tornadoes were not represented at the congress. Also in attendance, as observers, were Shehu Adamu, Yahaya Kwande and Emeka Inyama, who are members of the Executive Committee of the NFF.
Considering that the NPL Board had announced just on Monday that the Congress would no longer hold, there was heavy presence of security men at the Prixair Hotel in Zone 6, Abuja, where it finally held.
The board, though, mandated Baribote to relinquish chairmanship of the board to his vice Shehu Gusau in order to allow a three-man committee probe the crisis currently rocking the body.
