Former Nigeria international, Prince Harrision Jalla, has warned FIFA and CAF officials to stay away from this weekend’s Nigeria Football Federation’s Annual General Assembly in Ibadan, Oyo State saying that they should be ready to face the consequences of their actions.

The NFF said on Thursday that it would hold its 2025 Annual General Assembly this Saturday (September 27, 2025) in Ibadan, and that there are no plans to amend the NFF Statutes. It added that any suggestions to the contrary are unfounded.

But Jalla has countered the NFF, saying: “FIFA and CAF officials should note that the NFF electoral process is sub judice, and that those who dare to circumvent the judicial process should be ready to face the consequences of their actions.”

In a letter titled: ‘Re: No Plans To Amend Statutes At 2025 Annual General Assembly, a copy made available to The Guardian, Jalla said: “My attention and that of other stakeholders has been drawn to a press release with the above caption.

“It is pertinent to remind the current NFF Board that no subsisting court order or judgment is sustaining it in that office. In the eyes of the law, Ibrahim Gusau and his Board are illegal occupants of the Sunny Dankaro House. The only court order they fraudulently procured to proceed with the September 30, 2022 NFF elections in Benin City has since been discharged by the Court of Appeal in Appeal No. CA/ABJ/CV/1006/2022, judgment delivered on the 19th day of January 2023.

“The Ibrahim Gusau Board is in office today simply because this is Nigeria, where anything goes—and that is why our football is sliding down the abyss.”

Jalla continues: “I therefore state as follows:
1. This General Assembly, as constituted, is a one-member General Assembly (States Football Chairmen Assembly), and it cannot be a judge in its own case.

2. It is only a properly constituted General Assembly of equal and proportional representation of the five federating units of the NFF that can amend, propose, or initiate amendment of the NFF Statutes.

3. No amendment, seminar, or workshop—in whatever guise, directly, indirectly, or clandestinely—should hold, for the simple reason that as of today all issues concerning the NFF electoral process are sub judice.

4. Finally, this piece serves as notice to FIFA and CAF officials who are always hired to intimidate the Federal Government and football stakeholders with their presence as cover for a fraudulent electoral process that continually produces charlatans as leaders of Nigerian football every four-year cycle.

“In the light of the above, FIFA and CAF officials should note that the NFF electoral process is sub judice, and that those who dare to circumvent the judicial process should be ready to face the consequences of their actions. Enough is enough—we are taking our football back.”