Bungling Nigerian Minister of Sports Tamuno Danagogo is reeling with shame after world football governing body FIFA promptly dismantled the sham house he hastily erected at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in the name of the new NFF Board.

FIFA in a letter signed by Secretary General Jérôme Valcke said yesterday that it did not recognise Tuesday’s hastily conducted election by an NFF faction backed by Danagogo, which produced Ambassador Chris Giwa as successor to former NFF President Aminu Maigari.

FIFA ordered the Giwa-led Board to vacate office latest by Monday, saying: “We will not recognise the outcome of the abovementioned elections and should there still be persons claiming to have been elected and occupying the NFF offices at midnight Monday 1 September 2014, we will bring the case to the appropriate Fifa body for sanctions, which may include suspension of the NFF.”

On how it arrived at the verdict, FIFA made reference to reports it received from recognised NFF members and the Association of Professional Footballers of Nigeria, “as well as to information relayed by the media with regard to the events linked to the general assembly of the NFF on 26 August 2014.”

It said: “We understand from the sequence of events that the general assembly duly convened by the NFF Executive Committee could not start as planned because some NFF members, including the president, were being held by security forces for questioning.

“We also note that, despite these absences, some members decided to hold an impromptu ‘elective general assembly’ while the delegates were supposed to be deciding on a new roadmap leading to elections for a new NFF Executive Committee.

“According to the enclosed reports, 39 out of 44 of the delegates then resolved to hold an ad hoc general assembly during which they decided that elections would be organised for 4 September 2014 and elected new members to the electoral committees.

“Finally, we have learnt that the persons who claim to have been elected during the so-called ‘elective general assembly’ have come to the NFF offices claiming to be the legitimate president and members of the NFF. It also appears that the Ministry of Sports has recognised them.

“As stated previously, FIFA deems the general assembly to be the highest decision-making body of any football association and that its decisions are consequently binding, provided that these comply with the member association’s own statutes.

“According to the facts reported to us, it appears that the vast majority of the NFF members decided to set the elections for 4 September 2014 and we consider this decision to be valid since it was taken by the highest decision-making body (the NFF general assembly) and conforms to what has been previously reported to FIFA.”

The FIFA hammer came barely two days after shameless Danagogo gleefully received Giwa and his co travelers in his office, endorsing their purported election.

Addressing the alleged new NFF board that includes Obinna Ogba, Effiong Johnson, Felix Orbua, Adams Yahaya and Sani Fema, Danagogo had said: “I congratulate you on your election and have confidence in you to take our football to where it should be.

“I have known some members of this board for several decades now, and some others for quite some time now. You are all people I can easily relate with.”

News Express reports that Danagogo, formerly a commissioner in Rivers State, has preoccupied himself with factionalising the NFF since his appointment as minister by President Goodluck Jonathan on March 5. Danagogo has completely shattered the peace restored by his predecessor Bolaji Abdullahi and appears confused on the way forward. Concerned football stakeholders are calling for his immediate removal by President Jonathan before he reverses the gains made in football in the past few years by Nigeria.

•Photo shows bungling Sports Minister Tammy Danagogo.