Chief Dr. Ifeanyi Uba, the owner of FC Ifeanyi Ubah has been fined N2.5m and banned for 10 premier league matches for encroaching the field during a game and assaulting the goalkeeper of Heartland FC, Ebele Obi.
Finally this is The video where Ifeanyi ubah slapped heartland player in nnewi.@ebikagboro @Ikwerreman pic.twitter.com/NDWgwxsycf
— Micheal obasi (@Obasi1984) March 30, 2016
The League Management Company (LMC) found the controversial businessman and owner of Capital Oil and The Authority Newspaper guilty of improper conduct.
It announced the decision in multiple tweets Thursday.
Chief Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, proprietor of FC Ifeanyiubah, is suspended from all #NPFL match venues for the next 10 matches.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
He has now been fined N2.5m because LMC found him guilty of encroaching field of play & assaulting Heartland player Ebele Obi.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
The fabled billionaire is expected to offer a letter of apology & an undertaking to be a good ambassador of the #NPFL.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
The LMC further bans all self-procured security services other than those sanctioned by the LMC from all #NPFL match venues henceforth.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
4 of the 10-match #NPFL ban is suspended for a probationary period till the end of the season.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
Ubah has up till 5pm on Saturday to appeal this decision if he objects the ruling.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
LMC has reported the FC Ifeanyiubah v Heartland match commissioner Sunday Jibrin to the NFF match comm appointment committee #NPFL
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
The LMC requests that the match commissioner be withdrawn from further #NPFL duties pending investigation into his conduct.
— League Management NG (@LMCNPFL) March 31, 2016
Meanwhile, the Heartland goalkeeper Ebele Obi has been handed a six-game ban for assaulting a referee in the club’s Nigeria Professional Football League clash with FC Ifeanyi Ubah on March 23.
Ebele, the brother of Super Eagles captain pushed the referee after he was issued a red card after the game for dissent as he milled around the assaulted official.
“Goalkeeper Obi of Heartland was separately charged for breach of Rule C11 in that he assaulted the referee by pushing him down and was banned from all NPFL activities and matches for six matches,” part of LMC’s statement revealed on Wednesday.
With this, Obi will miss his side’s matches against Nasarawa United, Rivers United, 3SC, Sunshine Stars, Ikorodu United and El-Kanemi Warriors.
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