Dolphins Call For Arrest Of Supporters Club Exco

The management of Dolphins football club is calling on the Nigeria police to arrest the entire executive members of the Dolphins supporters club for assault.

  Five Executive Committee members of the supporters club including the chairman Otis Asoye and his vice physically assaulted the manager of Dolphins after last week’s league match that ended 2-1 in favour of Dolphins against Kaduna United.

  This is an action associated with street urchins, aka ‘area boys’ but the supporters’ club Exco took the law into their hands thereby causing breakdown of law and order at the stadium as their action developed into a free for all fight.

  The Dolphins management in a statement noted  that members of the Executive  of the supporters club that arrive late to the stadium even for home matches and have had membership reduced from 450 to under 40 in less than one year should focus on restructuring their club rather than destabilise a Premier League football club.

  In other states, members of supporters club celebrate victories rather than engage in shameful acts like the one witnessed on Saturday.

  “People like that are not fit to run the affairs of the supporters club of the second most successful Nigerian club in this millennium,”.

  Dolphins have not witnessed hooliganism since 2004 and it is sad to see that the supporters club are the ones bringing it back to the Port Harcourt Liberation stadium.

  It is the duty of the police to nip hooliganism in the bud, so we await them to do the right thing,” said the statement.