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Football Triangle: See Those Killing Kano Pillars

Football Triangle: See Those Killing Kano Pillars

By Abdulgafar Oladimeji

Kano state government, lawmakers , Kano  born sports administrators, Kano state Football Association, KSFA , Kano Pillars fans club, the media , former  players  and regimented section of Kano football supporters constitute the hydra headed demon that is destroying Kano Pillars.

The like hydra headed demon destroying Kano Pillars  is an twin  semblance of the hydra  headed demon in  the Greek mythology, when one head is cut off, it is replace by two others.

Kano Pillars is the most fancied club side in the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL, no doubt.

Sai Masu Gida posses the potentials to excel to the level of the most successful football economy in Nigeria, ask those who know, they will affirm this assertion.

Since the club ‘s envious maiden continental glorious campaign , Pillars despite wining the country’s league title in an historic back to back famous achievement  , it is  now a shadow of it’s former self, it is always one day , one trouble for Kano Pillars.

If not for the hydra headed demons at work, why would Pillars continue to live and exit from  the valley of failure at intervals.

The following  demonic  heads have possessed Kano Pillars and had defy various sports tricks, magic  and left to suffer from the political trial and error methods been imposed on the club by the owners .

Kano state Government.

The owners of the club  are the chief culprits behind the myriads of problem being suffered by the club.

The state government  led and has continued to champion the mission of  those  scavengers that have succeeded in turning the club into a  football carcass .

The club is confirmed to be   registered with CAC as a  Limited liability company.

The state government has refused to inject life into the club by  not allowing it  to comply with the laid procedures  of  cooperate governance.

Kano state government in the past nine years have continued to treat this precious asset with  levity and non chalant attitude.

Kano state government in recent years is confused over how to manage the club, it resorted to converting  the club into a dumping ground, for out of tune football administrators and former athletes cum politician, to thank them for being good party boys.

A then serving Kano lawmaker was widely reported in the media,  citing the facilitation of the recruitment of an unamed  player from his constituency, into the club  as one of his well executed constituency projects.

CORRUPTION.

Another  canker worm destroying Kano Pillars is corruption, government officials have and  are allegedly conniving   with those in the club system to steal from government coffers.

The lean resources  been channeled  to the club from the state government coffers, is now a victim of kill and divide.

There is a racketing in  the sales of tickets, illicit players transfer deal s and misappropriation of the proceeds from such deals.

One of the mother of all corruptions in the club, is in the  buying of equipment’s, how on earth will a club with the highest prospects  in sports branding and merchandizing continue to budget and spend millions on the purchase of equipments, this submerges  football business imaginations, in an sane clime.

The club is swimming in over inflated receipts from away trips.

Recruitment of players for the club is now a conduits pipe, recruitment process and contractual terms  of coaches and the salaries of the  players and other officials stinks.

SABOTAGE

Some section of Kano born sports administrators, since they are not in charge and their close allies are not in charge,   invoke   the heavens to fall on the  club.

Hatred and envy have continued to inspire some persons, who feel, it is either they are in charge or no one else is good enough , they don’t hide their hatred and vigorously continue  to work  against the interest of the club, these  clique, whenever  outside the management of Pillars will work hard and stop at nothing to sabotage the club ,  they care less to ruin the efforts of those in charge to pave way for their return to take charge directly or by proxy.

Kano Pillars is now a spoil of war, the winner takes all.

MEDIA.

The most abused, disjointed, ill equipped  football media brand in Nigeria is Kano Pillars.

A good number of media practitioners in the city have suddenly turned football expert dishing out misguided, polluted and fetish concocted opinion polluting the air enveloping the club with toxic.

We need not get it wrong, Pillars is a darling club, it deserves all the mention, the worries here,  is how some journalists have sold out by prostituting around  the club.

Media practitioners around the club  lack the courage to engage those assigned with the task of running the club, whenever the chip are down, those few who take bold step and have the courage to engage the club are branded as either white or blue enemies, by the self appointed vuvuzelas.

Some journalists have continued to  fall over themselves to be in the good books of the club management or the state government to see how to satisfy their lust of seeing to their been enlisted  into  the club media crew,  lacking the bravery to speak truth to sports authorities in the state.

Seekers want to become the Media Officer of Kano Pillars, even at the cost of ethics and self pride.

FANS CLUB

Kano Pillars fans club has failed to claim its economic, political and spiritual share holding  in the club.

FORMER PLAYERS

A  clique of former players see Kano Pillars as their  birth right, nobody, no matter how good your  capacity , you are not welcome, if you find your way  to the club, you will be caught in their web,  you can not operate without the blessings of these players, who will not hesistate to mobilize local forces against any perceived foe.

KANO STATE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

KSFA  has failed in playing it supposed role as the football think tank in the state, KSFA is supposed to be the reservoir of Kano Pillars, herein today ,  that is not the case.

The state FA is always busy with the war with imaginary and real  enemies of the game, seeing Kano Pillars as its greatest  foe.

Kano Pillars does not and  has continue to reject the superiority of the state FA over the club.

KSFA seem lost in understanding its powers over the affairs of Kano Pillars.

Today , Kano Pillars is assumed to be  bigger than Kano FA, imagine a son becoming bigger than his paternal uncle , this  undisputedly has created  an unwarranted,  unhealthy rivalry between the two Kano football super powers

This cold war between Kano FA and Kano Pillars has cost Pillars so much pains, those who know knows, what this  is all about.

What bothers you is that Kano state government is the oga at the top over these two football giants, rather than call them to order, Kano state government officials   past and present have continued to exploit the  war to pursue their various nefarious agenda within the system.

WAY FORWARD

Kano state government must sit down and have a rethink, if possible contract independent minded football technocrat, locally and abroad, who will be willing to offer their services pro bono, they abound , because the club is well loved, they will be willing to offer their services for free.

 Kano state government must decide on whether it wants a  Kano Pillars  that is a  private, commercial or social  club side.

The state government must proceed to give the club a disciplined and properly knitted  system of governance to deliver on the set  mission and vision behind the establishment of the club.

Appointment of all kinds of people into the club management in the name of political compensation to run the club must stop.

If the club is to be redirected towards been commercially driven, technocrats drawn from sports administration, hospitality industry , merchandizing, branding, sports media sectors must be drafted to  govern  the club

If the mission of the state government is to run the club as a social entity for the purposes of public relations, then appoint  a board  of five man that would be a mixture of politicians and  sports digital technocrat not analog sports technocrat, then ensure adequate  funding  for  the club to project the image of the government and also win laurels to make the people happy.

If Kano state government wants a Kano Pillars that is truly a  limited liability  company, it should contract football  investment experts to  help unbundle , then sell  shares worth billions of naira  to football happy  Kano people and football investors from far and wide, who will be forever happy and grateful  to own the  smallest ownership portion of their darling  club, the state government could also keep a good  chunk of the ownership to itself.

Then the media, medical security units of Kano Pillars will go haywire.

The fans club will take their rightful place in the affairs of the club.

All loop holes presently demonizing the club will be beheaded and buried.

Pillars will proceed to be the role model club that it was destined to be, since its inception.

To they that have ears, let them hear.

Abdulgafar Oladimeji

Abdulgafar Oladimeji is a sports writer with over two decades experience in the industry. As a reporter , he has worked with top major Nigerian newspapers, freelancer with newspaper and broadcast media organizations in Africa, Europe and America. He is a well travelled sports journalists reporting major sports events across the globe.

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