Wikki Tourists’ relegation: SWAN demands probe into alleged match-fixing, poor welfare

The Bauchi State section of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has called for a probe of the sacked Management Committee of Wikki Tourists FC implicit the circumstances that led to the club’s relegation from the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL).

The relation besides commended the Bauchi State Government for sacking the committee pursuing the club’s disappointing show successful the 2025/2026 NPFL season.

Recall that Wikki Tourists were relegated to the Nigeria National League (NNL) conscionable a twelvemonth aft returning to Nigeria’s top-flight league.

In a connection jointly signed by its Chairman, Bala Bawaji, and Secretary, Elizabeth Kah, and made disposable to journalists connected Sunday, SWAN described the government’s enactment arsenic “timely and necessary.”

The relation said the determination demonstrated the government’s committedness to repositioning the club, restoring nationalist assurance and creating the close instauration for Wikki Tourists’ contiguous instrumentality to the elite part of Nigerian football.

SWAN called for a thorough probe into the circumstances that led to the club’s mediocre show contempt the fiscal and administrative enactment provided by the authorities authorities thro...