By Uzor Odigbo
Gombe State FA Division 1 Football Club Mega FC Jekadafari has been acquired by a new owner and renamed Gombe Sporting Football Club henceforth.
The new owner and former Chairman of Gombe State Football Association, Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe, said his interest in football has not diminished, though other interests have cropped up.
Hon. Gara insisted that acquiring Mega Jekadanfari FC was born out of his desire to improve the quality and standard of football in Gombe State.
“Some people thought I have left football, but didn’t know football is in me,” he said.
He noted that Changing the Club’s name to Gombe Sporting Football Club was to give the club a new beginning.
According to the terms of the agreement, the new owner is expected to restructure the club to a desired Standard.
Terms of agreement also stipulated that the former owners/board members of Mega Jekadanfari football club have agreed that the club would be officially handed over to Ahmed Shuaibu Gara as the new owner with a request to restructure as he wishes and also has agreed to follow Ahmed Shuaibu Gara’s directives and support him with or without any schedule of duty (Rank) and declares that Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara is now the official owner of Mega Jekadanfari football club.
Sequel to the agreement, six signatories out of eight including former Club chairman, Abubakar M. Abubakar, his deputy Abubakar Ahmed, Team Manager Isa Baffa and Secretary/coach Aliyu O. Lamido, etc. signed the document.
The former owner’s decision to allow a takeover of the club was owing to a setback of the club and lack of exposure and inexperience of the team in the state and hoping that the new owner has the capacity to take the club to the FIFA, CAF standard
