By Bashir Hassan Abubakar
All is not well with the Bauchi State Football Association, as four board members of the association have passed a vote of no confidence on the chairman and former Super Eagles player, Mr Paschal Patrick.
Addressing sports Journalists at the NUJ Secretariat yesterday, the spokesperson of the
board members, Usman Abass Shehu disclosed that the board members have passed vote of no confidence on its chairman Patrick Paschal and he has been removed as Chairman.
A leadership crisis has engulfed Bauchi State Football Association (BFA) following series of allegations against the chairman as four Board members passed a ‘Vote of no Confidence’ on the Chairman of the Association, Patrick Paschal, a former Super Eagles coordinator.
The Four Board members led by Usman Abass Shehu said they have removed Paschal as Chairman replacing him with the Vice Chairman, Adamu Umar Madachi as Acting Chairman.
The Four Board members indicted Patrick Paschal of “high headedness, exclusion and breaching of many provisions of the Statute of the Association” especially for failing to convey board meeting since coming on board.
They accused him of running the Association as his personal property as he has refused to call for a general Congress since they were elected in June 2019.
They also accused him of not carrying other members along in the running of the affairs of the Association citing examples with a few competitions he singlehandedly organized claiming that it was done by the FA after he had initially informed them that it was sponsored by Prof Suleiman Bogoro.
They board members accused the former National Team player of constituting an illegal local football council across the 20 local government areas.
While reacting to the development, Patrick Paschal dismissed his purported removal as a joke and the figment of the imagination of the four board members.
“They said that they removed me, I am presently in the office working. Those four board members have been removed during a Congress we held yesterday (Wednesday). The Congress is above any person.”
He boasted that nobody can remove him as the Chairman of the Association without following the due process laid down in the Statutes of the Association.
Patrick Paschal dismissed all the allegations against him describing them as baseless and unfounded stressing that they cannot be substantiated.