ODAHIEKWU OGUNDE, YENAGOS
Acting Chairman of Bayelsa Queens Football Club, Robin Apreala, has debunked rumour making the rounds that he supported the ‘Super Six Playoff’, saying that the insinuation is a figment of the imagination of the peddlers.
Apreala said what happened during the virtual meeting was that the Chairperson of the National Women Football League (NWFL) Board, Aisha Falode, put it before the house that the league should either be played mid-week and weekends or an abridged league format should be played.
In a statement on Wednesday, Apreala said: “The network went bad when I was discussing with the General Manager of Rivers Angels FC, and when we finally got connected back to the Zoom meeting, it was voting for or against the ‘Super Six’ format that was going on.”
At that point, Rivers Angels General Manager said they had not concluded on the mid-week and weekends playing format and Aisha Falode shouted her down that they had gone past that issue.”
 The Acting Chairman said that when he wanted to talk about the issue, he was muted, hence he could not say anything.Apreala added: “I never supported the ‘Super Six’ format and will definitely not support it. I wonder why the format was adopted.”
I remember that in 2018 when the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) was stopped abruptly, Lobi Stars of Makurdi was declared winner of the NPFL league.”
The same thing happened in the 2019/2020 season when Plateau United were awarded the continental ticket alongside Enyimba and Rivers United when the issue of Point Per Game was used to make Enyimba of Aba, Champions League representative.”
Wondering why the female version should be an exception, he recalled that the Congress of the Nigeria Women Football had before the commencement of the league agreed to a straight league.”
If any force majeure calls for the suspension or cancellation, the right thing to do is to hand the continental ticket to the club at the top of the league table at that point,” he said.