Good morning All and Sundry,
I have erased my previous start to this post more than once because I am unsure how to begin. How best to reintroduce the pride and happiness that used to be the hallmark of this blog. It feels like a man staring into a mirror, wondering where the youthfulness went.
It is easy to look at the mess that is Enyimba today and tie it to Commissioner versus Chairman, but the troubles of Enyimba did not start two months ago. On this platform we have called out the ineptitude, the naivety, and yes, the illiteracy of this current administration for a long time. This decay is years in the making.
We begged. We coaxed. We dragged. We even wrote an open letter. We have done everything within our little corner of influence to get Kanu and his team to either change their ways or leave our club. But I guess when a man is eager to stamp his authority and bring in his own people, common sense becomes optional. Following Kanu’s playbook, authority became the goal, not competence.
He quickly brought in another one quite like himself in administrative ineptitude, and then the stories started leaking. Players going into vital games on empty stomachs. People more interested in making money off bonuses than doing proper recruitment. A club that once moved with structure now moving like a market square at closing time.
And let us be clear. Three years is enough time to build a squad capable of mounting a strong campaign on the continent. Not for this administration. Their modus operandi is simple. Owe players. Delay obligations. Watch quality legs walk away. Recruit again in August. Repeat the same foolishness the next season. And with that, Enyimba became a club that owes her former players. Something FAA, for all his faults and Emperor Nero styled leadership, never did.
The point of this post today is not to tell a new version of the travils at the club, It is to profer a remedy. The true and lasting solution is to cut off the diseased branch. This leadership has to go. I do not care if they are twin brothers with Governor Alex Otti. Otti is loved in Abia. He is respected across the country. But destroying Enyimba is an unpardonable sin.
Governor Otti sir, you boast of a successful career in both private and public service. Will you let anyone with the competence level of Kanu and his team manage any of your businesses? The glaring answer is no. So why entrust a club of this stature to people who have shown no plan for progress, no capacity for structure, and no respect for the standards that made Enyimba what it is.
Now there are whispers surrounding the money CAF gave Enyimba. I have avoided that conversation on this blog, but it is beginning to gather steam. And this is exactly how reputations get stained. This is how political goodwill gets dragged into football mud. Mr Otti is a smart man. I am certain he will not sit and watch people set fire to his image through reckless handling of Enyimba.
We are at a crossroads as a club. And I will say words I never thought I would ever utter – The future looks bleak.
Enyimba Enyi.
