Aminu Magari has been reinstated as President of the Nigeria Football Federation to bring the chief executive officers in charge of the country's football house to two on Thursday.
Maigari who returns for the third time since being sacked by a Jos High Court after the 2014 Fifa World Cup was reinstated by some FA chairmen and their secretaries at an extra-ordinary congress held at Bentley Hotel in Abuja.
The factional Congress said they were obeying the orders of Fifa for the reinstatement of the Aminu Maigari-led executive board of the NFF, Goal learnt.
Fifa in a statement published on its website on Wednesday asked for the NFF's leadership as composed at the 25 August 2014 be restored with immediate effect after issuing an order for the Chris Giwa-led Board to quit office on or before 8th September, 2014.
Fifa also directed the Maigari-led Board to take charge of drawing up a road-map for fresh election in a yet to announce convenient date.
"The NFF executive committee as it was composed on 25 August 2014, meaning under the presidency of Mr Aminu Maigari, should then convene a first extraordinary general assembly as soon as possible to elect the members of the electoral committees and a second extraordinary general assembly in order to proceed with the elections of the new NFF office-bearers,” part of the Fifa's statement read.
Maigari has released a statement saying that he would organize elections into the NFF Office in 2015.
