Chairman, League Management Company (LMC), sentenced to jail

Today, Justice Ishaku Kunda, of a High Court sitting in Bukuru, Plateau, committed, Shehu Dikko, Chairman, League Management Company (LMC) and Salish Abubakar, its Chief Operations Officer, to 14 days imprisonment for contempt, disobeying the orders of the court.
Kunda, who gave the order of committal, also issued a warrant of arrest of Dikko and Abubakar. He said that the duo had brought court of competent jurisdiction to disrepute by blatantly refusing to appear before it when they were ordered to do so.
The judge said that Dikko and Abubakar disobeyed the court order that ordered the suspension of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) pending the determination of a case before the court.

The court had in August ordered the suspension of the NPFL and ordered LMC to reinstate Giwa Football Club after it was evicted from the NPFL by the LMC for failure to honour three fixtures in the league, but the orders were not obeyed.
The court at yet another sitting, ordered that both Dikko and Abubakar to physically appear and explain while they failed to carryout the orders were not obeyed, but they refused again.