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Plateau Utd goalkeeper, Abayomi Olorunda has revealed that that officiating in the Nigeria National League, NNL is going from bad to worst.

Abayomi in a telephone chat made this known.

According to him: “These referees are killing the domestic game. It’s unfortunate that this is happening when football is taking a modern shape daily. “

“I really don’t know maybe EFFC should be involved because things are getting out of hand.”

The former Dolphins of Port-Harcourt shot-stopper stressed that there was need for urgent assessment of referees and their body (NRA) towards boosting the standard of officiating in Nigeria’s second tier football league. “Let me take your mind back to when we played Niger Tornadoes in a week 19 match in Minna, the ref and is assistances aided Tornadoes victory. It was hell for us as he awarded a questionable red card to our captain, Apkos Egborge as we went on to lose 2 – 0.

“I hope the NNL management will take drastic action so as officiating by this referees will improve.”

Abayomi also emphasized on the need of an improve players welfare package in the league.

Plateau United forward, Edward Weng, has said his side’s target is to widen the leadership gap at the Nigeria National League (NNL) Division A.

The Tin City side are leaders of NNL Division A on superior goals with 18 points same as city rivals, Giwa FC and Adamawa United.

The Jos-based landlords will play hosts to Jigawa Golden Stars in a tough NNL Matchday 11 on Saturday at the Rwang Pam Stadium, Jos.

Weng said his side trained twice daily this week with the aim of picking all points off visiting Jigawa Golden Stars as well as stay beyond the reach of the chasing pack.

“We want to widen the gap at the top, and good enough our closest rivals, Giwa are on the road so a victory against Jigawa Golden Stars will give us a clear three-point lead.

“We’re mindful of a photo-finish at the end. So we’ve decided that in addition to the three points we must win our games with a wide goal margin.

“After Week 7, we took a vow not to go down once we claim the top spot and we’re religiously keeping faith with the vow.

“Jigawa Stars have a crop of good players who can turn things around that’s why we’re not pretending that the encounter will be easy. So we’re not going to underrate the side or any other side but play each game as if it was the final and with a specific strategy,” said the former El-Kanemi Warriors hitman to supersport.com.

Plateau United have never hidden their intention to gain promotion to the elite league where they were relegated at the end of the 2010/11 NPFL season.