Don’t exonerate Yusuf yet, Gara Gombe cautions Rohr (Vanguard)

Football administrator and Higher Institutions Football League promoter, Ahmed Gara-Gombe has cautioned Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr to withhold his support for his assistant, Salisu Yusuf who has been ensnared in a bribe for jersey scandal. Yusuf was caught on tape by controversial Ghanaian Journalist Anas Aremeyaw, accepting $1,000 for him to field a certain player during the 2018 CHAN tournament in Morocco. In offering his assistant support, Rohr had declared that Yusuf was a “honest victim.” However, the Nigeria Football Federation is probing the incident and it is waiting for Yusuf to state his own side of the story. Read more