NPFL Chairman: Clubs sat up because we don’t take nonsense

NPFL chairman Gbenga Elegbeleye has said the just-concluded 2023/24 season was successful because the clubs saw that the league organisers insisted on doing the right things.

“We attacked the problems of the league, we’re not new comers, we’re experienced managers and we know that if we did well, history will be kind to us,” Elegbeleye said in a radio interview.

“We don’t accept nonsense and so the clubs had to sit up.

“We had to do it right.”

Elegbeleye buttressed his point by mentioning the decision to step down 14 referees who were found wanting and the docking of points from clubs for crowd trouble.

He disclosed that they have severally increased the allowances of the referees after the previous organisers of the competition owed them for over three years.

The NFF 2^nd vice president further said champions Enugu Rangers were paid 150 Million Naira as prize money, an improvement on the 100 Million Naira that Enyimba got when they won the league the previous season.

“Previously prize monies in the league were mere promises,” he said.

The league is back on television after many years and it was also streamed to as many as a 100 countries around the world this season, according to the NPFL boss.