Ogunjobi faces two-year ban over Olanrewaju transfer crisis

Former Scribe of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi will be handed a two year ban from all football related activities in the country, if the recommendations of a panel recently set up by the football house to look into his alleged role in the transfer saga involving former Flying Eagles star, Kayode Olanrewaju are implemented by the Glass House.

Daily Trust gathered from documents made available from the NFF panel that the federation committee had set aside the document ASEC Mimosa sent to the Glass House and chief Ogunjobi’s appeal that the petitioner, Olanrewaju, must be physically present before he could react to his allegations and recommended the ban.
The Cote d’Ivoire club had given a graphic detail of the entire contractual agreement in the document, specifying in clear terms, that “Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi is not a signatory

of the document and was not present at the signing ceremony between the player and his club.”
Ogunjobi had while speaking to the media and brandishing the document shortly after appearing before the panel, said that the parley ended in deadlock following his insist that the best way to get to the root the matter should be for the petitioner to be physically present to defend his allegations.
The Ivorian club had noted that though Olanrewaju mandated them to transmit the sum of 150,000 FCFA monthly to his family in Nigeria through Ogunjobi while his loan lasted in Swiss, but both agreed that the club should keep the money in Abidjan until further notice.
“ASEC Mimosa has no contractual relationship with Mr. Taiwo Ogunjobi and we put it in the contract at the request of the player. We took note of the request made by the player in the amendment of the contract. From May 2011 to January 2012 (date of the loan of the player to Swiss club FC Lucerne), so we had to pay the sum of 150,000 FCFA per month to the player in Nigeria through Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi.
“Before making the transfer of money, Mr Ogunjobi, in agreement with the player, asked us to keep this money in Abidjan and he would tell us when and how to send it in Nigeria, when the player will need it,” it read in part.
Reacting to the development, Ogunjobi described the plot figment of the federation’s imagination, hinging his ordeal in the whole saga on his political ambition for the Glass House top seat.