{"id":2499,"date":"2023-07-17T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/17\/mega-fc-jekadafari-gets-new-owner-renamed-gombe-sporting-football-club\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:39:15","slug":"mega-fc-jekadafari-gets-new-owner-renamed-gombe-sporting-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/17\/mega-fc-jekadafari-gets-new-owner-renamed-gombe-sporting-football-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega FC Jekadafari Gets New Owner, Renamed Gombe Sporting Football Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230716-WA0326.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230716-WA0326.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230716-WA0326.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230716-WA0326-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230716-WA0326-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230716-WA0326-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG-20230716-WA0326\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Gombe State FA division 1 Football club Mega FC Jekadafari has been acquired by a new owner and renamed Gombe Sporting  Football Club henceforth.<\/p>\n<p>The new owner and former Chairman, Gombe State Football Association Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe said his interest in football has not diminished, though, other interests have cropped up.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Gara insisted that acquiring Mega Jekadanfari  FC was born out his desire to improve the quality and standard of football in Gombe State.<br \/>\u201cSome people thought I have left football, but didn\u2019t know football is in me\u201d<br \/>He noted that Changing the Club\u2019s name to Gombe Sporting Football Club was to further give the club a new beginning.<br \/>According to the terms of agreement the new owner is expected to restructure the club to a desired Standard.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of agreement also stipulated that \u201d The former  owners\/board members of Mega Jekadanfari football club have agreed that the club would be officially handed over to Ahmed Shuaibu Gara as the new owner, with ultimatum to restructure as he wishes and have also agreed to follow Ahmed Shuaibu Gara\u2019s directives and support him with or without any schedule of duty (Rank) and declares that Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara is now the official owner of Mega Jekadanfari football club.<\/p>\n<p>Sequel to the agreement, six signiteries out of eight including former Club chairman, Abubakar M. Abubakar,  his deputy Abubakar Ahmed, Team Manager Isa Baffa and  Secretary\/coach Aliyu O. Lamido, etc. signed the document.<\/p>\n<p>The former owner\u2019s decision to allow a take over of the club was owing to a set back the club suffered and lack of exposure cum inexperience of the team in the state and hoping that the new owner have the capacity to take the club to the FIFA and CAF standard<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"\/> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Post Views:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">80<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/mega-fc-jekadafari-gets-new-owner-renamed-gombe-sporting-football-club\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gombe State FA division 1 Football club Mega FC Jekadafari has been acquired by a new owner and renamed Gombe Sporting Football Club henceforth. The new owner and former Chairman, Gombe State Football Association Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe said his interest in football has not diminished, though, other interests have cropped up. Hon. Gara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}