The owner of Nigerian football team Bubayaro, Shuaibu-Gara Ahmed Gombe, has disowned and disbanded the club following the match-fixing goal-fest scandal. It would be recalled that Nigerian authorities have imposed an indefinite ban on all four teams that were involved in two recent playoff games which ended with overwhelming results, as Plateau United Feeders won against Akurba FC 79-0 and Police Machine FC destroyed Bubayaro 67-0.
Police Machine needed to score more goals than Plateau United Feeder in the race to win promotion to the lowest tier of Nigeria's national league.
Reports said respective scorelines from the two venues were being constantly swapped on mobile phones. Feeders scored 72 of their goals in the second half, while Police Machine found the net 61 times after the break.
Both results were annulled. and Bubayaro owner Shuaibu-Gara Gombe has now walked away from his disgraced club.
Gombe, who was in Lagos when the games were played, said he had ordered the team not to play the match but he was ignored by team officials: ''I only read on the internet that they were already in Bauchi to honour the fixture even though I had given an order against their participation.''
"As soon as I heard the result I disbanded the team," he told the BBC Sport. "It's disappointing that some people would bring the game to disrepute out of desperation. I have written a petition to the [state] police in Bauchi to investigate this shame and arrest anyone found to be involved."
"It is embarrassing not only to me as the chairman of the club but to Nigeria football and the entire football family all over the world. What is more embarrassing was the fact that the scoreline has never happened anywhere in the world, a team scoring by that wide margin. It pains me as chairman and financier of the club."
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