The Management of the league defending champions, Enyimba International of Aba has accused the NFF of being bias in docking the team two points in the match played against Doma United 

The NFF Disciplinary Committee has ruled that Enyimba be docked of the two points and the result remains as it was before the incident that led to the referee going to watch the replay from a Startimes OB van at the stadium. 

Enyimba in its reaction, accused  the NPFL board of trying to manipulate Enyimba results to favour some teams for continental slots. 

They said Enyimba will have no option than to boycott the league and withdraw their membership of the NPFL.

"We've never had it this bad before in this league.

" Overall, the NPFL's decision against Enyimba is detrimental to the league's reputation, competitiveness, and potential for growth. It undermines the trust and confidence that stakeholders have in the league administration and raises concern about the fairness and integrity of the competition". 

"The NPFL's decision against Enyimba is very bad for the league as charcoal turning into sugar". 

They pointed out Lack of consistency, disruption to the League, negative impact on Enyimba's reputation, discouragement for clubs and fans, Impact on league sponsorship and TV rights, as some of the negative impacts the decision will have on the league. 

Enyimba further pointed out that in their match against Katsina United, on the 17th of January 2024, the club was robbed by the match officials starting with the AR1 who is from Benue State when Andrew Idoko who's ball didn't even reach the goal line was declared as a goal by the said AR2. Enyimba never protested or fought the match officials for that ungodly football ruling.

"In the game between Enyimba and Sunshine Stars in Akure, a goal was awarded to the home side which never crossed the line just as in Kastina and yet The People's Elephants didn't complain to anybody about the official or what happened in the game". 

" In the lost against Kano Pillars, Enyimba were denied a clean penalty in the game and the club moved on without complaining about it and the outcome yet NPFL board did nothing about it. In Uyo against Akwa United, Enyimba were denied three clean penalties by the officials of the game and NPFL board did nothing about it as they support everything against Enyimba just to help any individual or state governments who pays them for results to satisfy their people". 

Enyimba went further to ask the centre referee of that match Nura Abdullahi who said he wrote his match report under duress and he knew those who force him to do that to mention them.