Yenagoa: The Management of Bayelsa United Football Club has reported the abscondment of Coach Ladan Bosso from duty as the Technical Adviser of the team to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
The club’s management described Bossos’s action as a show of arrogance and disrespect to Bayelsa and its people.
Bayelsa United FC, in the petition to the NFF, is demanding N30 million for breach of a subsisting contract.
Bosso, 57, was hired last year as Technical Adviser to the Bayelsa State team and moved the team through a survival battle to the 10th position during the 2024/2025 NFFL season.
It was gathered that Bosso, who is the President of the Nigeria Coaches Association and former Head Coach of Nigeria’s U-20 national team, was lured by the newly promoted Barau FC team of Kano with a promise to double his pay package.
Barau FC has, however, announced and unveiled Bosso as the team’s Technical Adviser for the new football season.
The announcement shocked management and supporters of Bayelsa United FC, who thought Bosso was on holiday.
Although the details of the contract agreement with Bayelsa United FC are unknown, it has been confirmed that Bosso has abandoned the club’s ongoing pre-season preparations and joined Barau FC.
Gov Douye Diri of Bayelsa, who is also abreast of the development, also mentioned it during the last State Executive Council meeting while hosting the victorious players of the Bayelsa Queens.
The governor described the development as a ‘huge distraction’ and noted that such unprofessional conduct can only happen in Nigeria.
Diri, it was gathered, advised the team management to inform the NFF about Ladan Bosso’s action before embarking on the recruitment of a new Coach for the team.
Reacting to the development, in a petition filed before the Secretary General of the NFF, the management of Bayelsa United, through its Chairman, Nwakwe Tarilaye, described Bosso’s action as “a brazen show of disrespect and arrogance to the state and Government of Bayelsa State”.
According to the letter, entitled “Notification of Abscondment from Duty by Ladan Bosso, “Ladan Bosso has absconded from duty without any form of communication. It is now public knowledge that Ladan Boss has contracted a new deal with newly promoted Barau FC of Kano, despite having a subsisting contract with us.
“His conduct as President of the Coaches Association only speaks of a brazen manifestation of arrogance and disrespect to the government and people of Bayelsa State.