{"id":2244,"date":"2014-10-01T07:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:26:51","slug":"ill-never-congratulate-pinnick-iorfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll never congratulate Pinnick \u2013 Iorfa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2245\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Iorfa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2245\" alt=\"Iorfa\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Iorfa.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iorfa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">Dominic Iorfa stormed out of the Golden Tulip Hotel, venue of the Elective Congress of the NFF the moment he saw the handwriting on the wall. Delta FA Chairman Pinnick Amaju Melvin had been declared the winner of the elections after he sailed through with a run-off votes of 32 over Iorfa\u2019s eight votes and Taiwo Ogunjobi\u2019s four votes.<\/div>\n<p>In the first votes that failed to produce two thirds winner as stipulated in Article 16:2 of the Electoral Guidelines, Amaju had won with 25 votes over Ogunjobi\u2019s nine and Iorfa\u2019s six votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Once Amaju was declared winner, he walked up to his fellow contestants hugging and parting them on the back. But when he opened his hands to embrace Iorfa, he turned his back and walked away. Other contestants filled Iorfa\u2019s void by embracing their new President.<\/p>\n<p>Iorfa fumed thereafter; \u201c\u201dI\u2019ll never embrace him. He is not better than me. He did not beat me. Money won and not him. People sold their souls for money and you want me to embrace and hug him. I don\u2019t pretend. I\u2019ll never embrace him\u201d, Iorfa said as he moved out of the hall.<\/p>\n<p>Mant others begged him to show the sportsmanship in him and he retorted, \u201c\u201dhe is not better than me. He did not win. Money won\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Iorfa stormed out of the Golden Tulip Hotel, venue of the Elective Congress of the NFF the moment he saw the handwriting on the wall. Delta FA Chairman Pinnick Amaju Melvin had been declared the winner of the elections after he sailed through with a run-off votes of 32 over Iorfa\u2019s eight votes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Iorfa.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}