Former NFF VP cancels Ifeanyi Ubah's contract

Chief Gabriel Chukwuma, the former first vice president of
the then Nigeria Football Association (NFF) and erstwhile
President of Gabros International, Nnewi, has made known
his intention to retake his club which was bought/taken over
by oil magnate Chief Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah.

Ubah claimed to have purchased the assets and liabilities of
the club before the beginning of last season and
subsequently renamed it FC IfeanyiUbah.

The club participated in the recently concluded 2014/15
Nigeria Professional Football League season and finished in
11th place.

However, Chukwumah has revealed that the celebrated sale/
takeover of Gabros International had
collapsed due to the inability of Chief Ubah to keep to the
terms of agreement.

In a strong worded letters sent to both (NFF) and League
Management Company (LMC) and
copied to Anambra State Football Association as well as the
Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Chukwumah said: “I
want to use this medium to apologise to the teeming fans of
Gabros International around the world to forgive me
regarding the shady manner with which the issue of sale/
takeover of the club was handled. I had wanted something
better for the club, players and fans but unfortunately I was
disappointed because the arrangement couldn’t work the
way I expected.

“However, I am assuring the fans that with my experience, I
will re-organise the club to regain its lost glory now that I
have taken back my club and the management. We shall
start competing again as Gabros International,” Chief
Chukwuma said.

The Nnewi high chief also released the club programme as
preparation for the 2015/16 football season begins.

It was scooped that apart from entering into a lucrative joint
partnership/sponsorship deal with two top European clubs
which will see the clubs providing eighty percent (80%) of
the cost of running the team, negotiations have also been
opened with a top Argentine coach, Marios Rodriguez to
tinker the team for the coming season.

Wwhile former Ekiti United coach Innocent Agbana has been
contacted to work as assistant to the South American
coach.

Chief Chukwumah also said he would be recalling all his
players that played for FC IfeanyiUbah last season, as they
remain staff of Gabros International.

“I formed this club and have laboured over the years
spending billions of my hard earned money to keep the club
afloat, from playing in the old professional division one to
when we were relegated to the lower division down to
amateur league and then to gaining successive promotions
back to the Premier League. I will never sit back and watch
the club slip into oblivion.”

Chief Chukwumah went further to invite all talented super
players between the ages of 17-22 who has what it takes to
compete in tough Nigeria Premier League to report for open
screening which has been exclusively fixed to commence on
Thursday 10th December 2015 under the watchful eyes of
coach Agbana.

The venue will be the Gabros International Stadium, Beverly
Hills, Nnewi in Anambra State.