Egwuekwe, Etebo, Kwambe, 7 Others Vow To Report Warri Wolves To Fifa, CAS Over Outstanding Salaries

As many as ten players of Warri Wolves FC whose contracts expired at the end of the 2015 season have threatened to take Warri Wolves FC to CAF/FIFA for breach of contracts on non payment of their outstanding salaries.

They have written an appeal to the Nigeria Football Federation to prevail on Warri Wolves FC to pay them their entitlements, since an earlier letter written to League Management Company was not enforced on the club.

Dream Team VI star Etebo, Super Eagles stoppers Azubuike Egwuekwe and Solomon Kwambe, and Supersand Eagles star Abu Azeez are amongst the affected players.

“When The League Management Company scrapped sign on fee, we entered monthly salaries contract with Warri Wolves FC in the 2013/14 season, with most of the players salaries ranging between N150,000 to N780,000.00, ” one of the players told allnigeriasoccer.com.

“The club management approached us the players that the budget of the club can not afford that monthly wage bill that we should please accept part of the salaries monthly while quarterly we will be paid the other part of the salaries as enhanced salaries.

“The other part of the enhanced salaries which is more is still outstanding, in August 2015 we wrote to the League Management Company complaint of the outstanding salaries in response the Chairman of LMC Shehu Diko replied our letter on 2nd October, 2015 that LMC gave a deadline of October 24th 2015 for Warri Wolves to settle all debts owed. ”

He added : “That deadline has elapsed, we are yet to receive our salaries, and Warri Wolves FC was allowed by LMC to acquire new players and also partake in the 2015/16 season without paying our outstanding.

“Late December 2015, we had a meeting with the chairman of the Delta State Sports  Commission Tony Okwa who claimed that what the club is owing us is sign on fees, that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa called LMC officials who told him that sign on fees has been scrapped and the club is not owing us.

“We all have our contract papers where our salaries are stated and there is no sign-on fees in any, we also have copies of our statements of account showing all the payments made by Warri Wolves FC to us.”

The aggrieved players have contracted a lawyer to fight their cause to the highest level of Court of Arbitration for Sports if NFF toil the same line LMC did.

News going round in Warri suggest the Chairman of the Delta State Sports Commission is promoting Asaba based Delta Force Football club, that recently secured a slot to campaign in the NNL in the 2015/16 season, and starving Warri Wolves FC of funds to see the club go down.

It will be recalled that sometime in November 2015, the former Chairman of the Sports Commission and current President of the Nigeria Football Federation convinced some private investors who approached Governor Okowa for takeover of the club, but the governor declined the offer, only to deprive Warri Wolves FC of funds to operate.