FIFA has said Nigeria will no longer be suspended after the Nigeria Football Federation complied with its recent directive, africanFootball.com reports.
However, the world football governing body warned it will suspend the country if there were hindrances into the NFF elections later this month.
Nigeria would have been suspended from all football related activities had persons claiming to have won elections into the NFF executive committee remain at the federation’s office on Monday morning.
But the NFF president, Aminu Maigari and several members of his executive committee returned to work on Tuesday afternoon.
This was the after the General Secretary Musa Amadu and top management staff of the NFF returned to work on Monday with Amadu confirming that the crisis was over.
“We note that you and the management of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) were able to return to office and work without hindrance,” africanFootball.com quoted FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valke, as saying in a letter dated September 8.
“We also note that the persons claiming to have been elected vacated the premises of the NFF.
“Against this background, we would like to confirm that the conditions set in FIFA’s aforementioned correspondence of September 3, 2014 have been complied with and that the NFF is accordingly not suspended.”
However, FIFA warned that should there be any hindrance to planned elections into the executive committee this month, Nigeria would be automatically suspended till the FIFA congress in May 2015.
“We welcome the positive steps which contributed to the normalisation of the situation. We now wait for the NFF executive committee to meet as soon as possible in order to convene an extraordinary general assembly to decide on the roadmap leading to the elections which should be open to all persons complying with the NFF statutes and regulations.
“These elections should also be organised as soon as possible under the NFF statutes and regulations.
“We would inform you should the electoral process be affected by any interference or mishap, the case will be referred again – and without prior notice or warning – to the appropriate FIFA bodies for immediate suspension of the NFF until the next FIFA congress,” Valke added.
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