Good morning.
Let me start with a New Year greeting — not because it is truly a new year (we’re already over 35 days in), but because this is my first piece since December. Rest assured, my loyalty to our darling club remains intact. If anything, it has only hardened. I’m back.
So much has happened at the club in such a short span that if Enyimba were nicknamed the Wilson Tagbo of the NPFL — One Week, One Trouble; sometimes Double Trouble — it would not be an exaggeration. Drama follows drama. One crisis bleeds into another. At this point, it feels like we are acting out a telenovela, complete with new characters and increasingly unbelievable subplots. It may be entertaining to outsiders, but for true blues, it is nothing short of embarrassing.
The latest episode is the flurry of so-called “counter appointments” coming from the state government. Even if the intentions are good, the manner is both disturbing and nauseating. These moves are direct affronts to the office of the club chairman. If these appointments are truly urgent and necessary to rescue Enyimba, why is due process being ignored?
Press releases signed by the Commissioner for Information, and even public affirmations by the Governor during his January 2026 media chat, can only be interpreted one way: a clear lack of confidence in the chairman appointed to restructure the club. If that is the case — and it certainly looks like it — then why pretend otherwise? Why bypass the first step and continue to act as though nothing is wrong?
This is neither an ethnic nor a political argument. It is a blatant and poorly disguised attempt to “enter” and quietly take over Enyimba, a club that has now been reduced to a punchline in Nigerian football circles. Some argue this is evolution rather than decay. I agree — but sadly, we are evolving into something we can no longer be proud of, not in Abia State, and certainly not beyond it.
Perhaps the only reason these dramas have not yet dragged us into deeper trouble is because several other teams appear determined to relegate themselves this season. That, however, is hardly a strategy.
Everyone knows exactly what they are doing.
History will remember it too.
Enyimba Enyi.
