OWERRI ZONE ADC CHAIRMAN PROMOTED TO NPFL REFEREE ASSESSOR. COMPLETES COURSES FOR 2025/26 SEASON.

The former Imo State Chairman of ADC party and a Retired Nigeria Premier League Referee Hon Engr Andyson Obani has earned promotion into NIGERIA PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (NPFL) REFEREE ASSESSOR cadre.

As he completed the mandatory promotion Course recently organized by NIGERIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION in conjunction with Nigeria Football Referee Association at Moshood Abiola’s Stadium Fct Abuja.

This top class Premier league referee of class 2006 officiated Nigeria highest league over a decade before his retirement in 2018.

As a vast experienced sports manager, having been assessing Nigeria National League Referees for the past five years , the NFF/NRA deemed him fit on merit and duely qualified for promotion from Imo State.

Engr Andyson Obani‘s love for conventional politics as a Pan-Afrikist started in 2015 when he joined AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS PARTY a minor Minority party in I’m State with little or no visibility.

His entrance into the party brought revived the strenght of imo ADC when he rallied his allies ( sports, Unionism and civil Societies ) into Imo Adc.

The highpoint was in 2018 when he collapsed OWERRI OKIGWE ZONES GREAT ALLIANCE OZGA into ADC, A move that reshaped imo Adc in 2019 with six guber aspirants while Andyson contested for the Ezinihitte stare Assembly with good results.

This tactical move earned him accolades by the National Leadership of the party led by Chief Ralph’s Okey Nwosu (Ikolo Awka) and was sent for “Leadership Transformation Course” at ADC global campus Abuja under the mentorship of Hi-Chief Anayo Arinze (Eko Awka ) before his appointment as the state chairman.

He has been a congressman that supervised the following congresses: Abia-2018, Imo-2019, Rivers-2021 Cross Rivers-2022, imo-2023 and Presently the SVC Imo East.