Reliant News has confirmed that Paul Offor’s contract with the Kano Pillars has been terminated nineteen days after he was unveiled as the club’s new coach.
Kano Pillars had entered into a contract with Paul Offor to manage the club’s senior team following Offor’s commendable performance with his former club, Sporting Lagos. Offor is Sporting Lagos pioneer coach. He had guided the newly formed club into the Nigeria’s professional league just two years after the club was formed.
His performance at Sporting Lagos earned him interest from some elite clubs in the Nigerian professional league including the Kano Pillars who ended up securing his signature; however, Offor would only last nineteen days at the club as his contracted was terminated for questionable reasons.
According to report, the former Sporting Lagos coach was sacked by Kano Pillars among other things, for his being an Igbo man. Some stakeholders at the club are said to be disgruntled about an Igbo man being the coach of the Kano Pillars.
Also, the Kano state commissioner for sports, Mustapha Rabiu Musa, son of former governor of Kano state, Rabiu Kwankwoso is said to have disliking for the Ndi Igbos and abhors working with them; hence, endorsed the termination of Paul Offor’s contract just nineteen days after he was unveiled.
Language barrier is another factor given for the termination of Offor’s contract as most of the Kano Pillars players understand only Hausa language other than English language which Offor communicated to them through.
Following his sack,Usman Abdullah, an indigene of Kano state has been appointed as the new coach of Kano Pillars in place of Paul Offor