Gbenga Elegbeleye, Chairman of Nigeria Premier Football League Board, NPFL , has revealed reasons behind the deployment of Secret League Assessors in the nation top flight football. 

Elegbeleye stated this while fielding questions in one the leading WhatsApp groups in Nigeria, *Sports World Platform* co hosted by Ibadan based Sports journalist, *Sunday Agunbiade* popularly known as 'Mr VAR' and Brila FM journalist, *Mohammed Saliu* fondly called Mosaliu on Friday

In his view, the Second Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF explained that the deployment of Secret Assessors was as a result of delay of match reports from some match commissioners.

According to the Graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife he said: "The deployment of secrete league assessors to monitor referees and clubs during NPFL games is a very big initiative as it's used to capture happenings at match venues. 

The former Director General of National Sports Festival noted that "Sometimes we discovered that some Match Commissioners that supposed to report happenings at the match venues to us the moment they finished the match will not even send their report two to three days after the match."

"We then decided that since we cannot compel them to send their report immediately ,we need our own Secret Assessors of credible people to go to matches and give us report."

"As I speak, we have two serving Major Generals as Assessors here working with us. There was a time we send two former Secretary Generals to do Secret Assessors and they did it with visual reports and we are very satisfied with their reports. For now ,we will continue to do it as long as the league subsists." Ondo State born Football administrator assured.