The chairman of Kano Pillars Football Club, Ali Nayara Mai Samba has passionately begged for forgiveness from sports journalists that throng the Sani Abacha stadium to cover the Kano Pillars/Niger Tornadoes league match.
Mai Samba who regretted the sad event in an exclusive interview with this site, called on the sports journalists to forget and forgive and promised that it won’t repeat itself.
“As the chairman of the club, I am worried about the sad event and will do all I can not to allow its reoccurrence”, he said.
Mai Samba added that, God willing before their next home match, they are going to strategies and come up with a new way of issuing a pass or official gate pass not only to press men but to all those that need to enter the stadium free.
He further explained that as a friend to sports journalists not only in Kano but in the country at large, there is no way he can allow this ugly trend to continue.
It could be recalled that some sports journalists that went to SAS were turned away while attempting to cover the NPFL match between Kano Pillars and Niger Tornadoes in the Sani Abacha Stadium last Sunday.
That was done despite identifying themselves as accredited journalists in the country but sadly they were told to buy match tickets,
That according to our findings did not go down well with them because as sports journalists, they are there not as spectators but to perform their duties.
Most of them are surprised to see a serving commissioner and his entourage, chairman of the club and other members who contributed nothing gaining entry free but wondered why sports journalists should be made to pay.