Chris Giwa, the factional President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
His arrest came minutes after he paid a familiarisation visit to the NFF Secretariat in Abuja on Friday.
Giwa, who arrived at the football secretariat about 4 p.m., in company of some of his board members, exchanged pleasantries with some secretariat staff while inspecting the offices.
He, however, did not have access to the offices of the NFF President, the General Secretary and the Accountant as they were locked.
Giwa told newsmen after the inspection that he was at the football secretariat to assert the order of the court which installed him as the president of NFF.
“My coming here is to confirm the ruling of the court that we got on April 8, 2016.
“It has been in the news, getting to one month today, that we got a ruling from the High Court in Jos restoring all the orders granted to us sometimes in 2014 after we relisted the case.
“The ruling gave me the permit and the right to be here today. I didn’t come in here with police; as you are aware, policemen have been here to do their duty of guarding the premises.
“By the grace of God, by Monday I am going to address the press here (NFF secretariat)”, Giwa said.
Giwa was still inside the premises when the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Wuse Zone 3 police station, Sunday Irek, arrived.
Irek, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), who arrived with detachment from his unit, entered Giwa’s Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) which took off.
The DPO had earlier deployed men to guard the NFF shortly after the court ruling on April 8.
He said then that he was acting on orders from above.
