The Ondo State Football Association (FA) Board has suspended the Chairperson of the Ondo State Football Coaches Association, Tayo Onilude, along with her executive members, with immediate effect.
According to the FA, the suspension followed recommendations from its Ethics Committee, which was set up to investigate the activities of the Coaches Association after several petitions were received from concerned members.
The decision was reached during a board meeting held on Wednesday at the Police Officers’ Mess in Akure, where members unanimously agreed to adopt the committee’s findings.
The Ethics Committee, chaired by former Ondo FA Chairman Chief Dele Ogungbemi, also included Mike Oluwabonmi (Vice Chairman), Pastor Henry Akingboju, Pastor Dotun Omoogun, and Femi Atolagbe as Secretary.
Among the committee’s key findings were that the Coaches Association had been operating without a formal statute, issuing suspensions unilaterally, and displaying poor administrative practices, among other irregularities.
As part of its recommendations, the committee advised that a caretaker committee be constituted for a period of six months to oversee the association’s affairs before fresh elections are conducted. It also recommended that members of the caretaker committee should not be eligible to contest in those elections.
The FA Board also resolved to lift all indefinite suspensions earlier imposed by the now-suspended chairperson on some members.
Following the decision, the Board appointed Adebola Tominiyi as the Caretaker Chairman of the Ondo State Coaches Association, with Gabriel Olatunji serving as Secretary and Ibrahim Tunbosun as a member.
Onilude has been directed to hand over all properties and official documents belonging to the association to the caretaker committee within 24 hours of its inauguration.
The swearing-in ceremony for the new caretaker committee is scheduled to take place on Thursday in Akure.
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