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Crisis is brewing in the Association of Former Female Athletes of Nigeria (AFFAN) as the Acting President, Dr. (Mrs.) Esther Aluko face accusations by founding members of attempts to falsely claim sole founding and ownership of the sports association by tampering with the constitution.
Aluko according to the petitioners, amongst other things secretly and fraudulently connived with some insiders to alter the documents registering AFFAN with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with the intent to achieve her plans to claim its sole ownership.
Aggrieved founding members in a petition to the CAC dated 27th July, 2026, and made available to our correspondent indicated that Mrs. Esther Aluko did not only claim ownership of AFFAN but tampered with its constitution to enable her illegally change some Trustees to suit her purpose.
The petition signed on behalf of the aggrieved founders/members by, Air Commodore Rahinatu Garba (rtd) mni, pointed out that, “There has been an illegal amendment of the AFFAN constitution without due process as stipulated in section 12 of AFFAN constitution with CAC and section 16.1 of the current AFFAN constitution”.
Disassociating themselves from Aluko and her cliques from what they termed, “Illegal Actions, Usurpation, Discriminations and Suppression of AFFAN members”, advised all National Sports Federations, relevant sports bodies and the general public to disregard any claim of planned election or communications from any of the unauthorized trustees.
“AFFAN, CAC Reg. No: 125037, is an Incorporated Trustee owned by its members and governed by the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020. It is NOT owned by any individual. We, the Concerned Founding and Financial Members of AFFAN, wish to state”, adding that no single co-founder can or has the rights claim ownership of AFFAN.
That one individual is parading herself as the “FOUNDER” and claiming personal and absolute power to unilaterally remove, appoint trustees and amend the constitution, this claims and many more according to the aggrieved founders is FALSE and UNLAWFUL as no individual has such powers under CAMA 2020.
The leadership of AFFAN since inauguration, including Esther Aluko, the petitioners pointed out have been on acting capacity and therefore wondered how somebody on acting capacity suddenly assumed powers to not only tamper with the constitution, appoint and/or direct state Coordinators to hand over to her trusted accomplices, but dictating what happens on the association’s platform.
Rahinatu also recalled that, prior to inauguration, Aluko had tactically and for no justifiable reasons eased out supposed protem Secretary, Barr. (Mrs.) Victoria Nlemigbo on the ground that she would want to dominate and dictate for the interim AFFAN leadership, and in similar manner later removed the Financial Secretary, Hajiya Hauwa Kwambo Ahmad, just to perfect her evil agenda.
Air Commodore Rahinatu (rtd) and her group also pointed out that the current acting leadership is circulating a purported, “Updated Constitution” that was never approved, in accordance with Article 6.1.10, Article 6.2.8 and Article 6.3.9 of the purported illegal Constitution because the contents is found to be not only biased but promoting tribal and regional agenda.
To prevent member’s knowing about her maneuvering to take over AFFAN by force or through illegal means, Rahinatu said, “The current acting leadership by Esther Aluko BLOCKED the official AFFAN WhatsApp platform and restricted it to ADMIN ONLY to prevent members from discussing the illegalities and to silence dissent opinions”.
“We hereby DISSOCIATE ourselves from all these actions by Esther Aluko and state that they are NULL, VOID AND OF NO EFFECT”, the petition signed by nine financial members who form majority of the founding members further stated.
