Bauchi govt dissolves Wikki Tourist management after relegation, appoints sole administrator

The Bauchi State Government has dissolved the Management Committee of Wikki Tourist Football Club pursuing the club’s relegation from the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) to the Nigeria National League (NNL) astatine the extremity of the 2025/2026 season.
Governor Bala Mohammed approved the dissolution with contiguous effect aft reviewing the club’s show and the interventions undertaken by the authorities authorities to forestall its relegation.

The determination was contained successful a connection issued connected Thursday by the Governor’s Special Adviser connected Media and Publicity, Mukhtar Gidado.

According to the statement, the authorities took the determination to reposition the club, reconstruct nationalist assurance successful its medication and laic the instauration for its instrumentality to Nigeria’s top-flight league.

It stated that passim the season, the authorities authorities provided fiscal and administrative enactment to amended the club’s show and competitiveness.

The connection added that arsenic portion of efforts to avert relegation, the authorities constituted a rescue squad during the closing stages of the play to enactment the absorption committee. However, the involution failed to forestall the club’s driblet to the Nigeria National League.

Following the dissolution, the politician appointed erstwhile Bauchi State Director of Sports, Alhaji ...