The Vice President of the Nigerian Rugby Football Federation, Olatunji Fasimoye has appealed to all lovers of the game, club owners and players to exercise more patience with the organizers of the leagues over the recent postponement of the commencement of the second phase of the regional leagues.
He attributed the last minute decision by the leagues’ organizing committee to the postponement of the election date from February 14th to March 28th 2015.
Speaking With newsmen yesterday in Lagos, the former Nigerian Rugby international explained that “the 2nd phase of the leagues was supposed to kick off February 28th 2015 but to our surprise, the election was postponed and this as affected a lot of things”
He said although a new date has not been fixed, but “immediately after the election, the leagues will kick off”
Cowrie RFC are currently occupying the driving seat in the South West league with 35 points from seven matches and followed by Racing RFC with 25 points from the same number of matches.
In the Northern league, Barewa RFC is on top of the table with 19 points while the South-South/South-East league is being led by Buffalo RFC of Abia with 6 points
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