NPFL: Drama in Benin as Referees Abandon Bendel Insurance, Rangers Match - THISDAYLIVE via thisdaylive
Attempts to reposition the domestic league in the country suffered a major setback Wednesday as referees assigned for the rescheduled clash of the Nigeria Professional Football League between Bendel Insurance and visiting Enugu Rangers refused to show up for the game.
Sources close to Insurance told THISDAY wednesday that both teams were at the University of Benin Sports Ground for the match but their were no arbiters on sight to record the proceedings that would have either allowed Insurance move out of relegation zone if they had won or consolidate Rangers position as leaders of the Group A of the NPFL.
While Insurance and Edo State FA officials accused the referees of bad faith, that there was no iota of truth in the allegations of lack of security, the umbrella body of the referees, NRA, headed by Tade Azeez insisted that it communicated to both the League Management Company and the Edo FA of its impending action not to officiate home matches of Insurance any more.
But Frank Ilaboya, chairman of Edo FA, insisted his secretariat never received any correspondence from the NRA on Insurance.
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