Kano State government, lawmakers, Kano born sports administrators, Kano State Football Association (KSFA), Kano Pillars fans club, the media, former  players  and regimented section of Kano football supporters constitute the hydra headed demon that is destroying Kano Pillars.

The hydra headed demon destroying Kano Pillars is a twin  semblance of the hydra  headed demon in Greek mythology, when one head is cut off, it is replaced by two others.

Kano Pillars is the most fancied club side in the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL, no doubt.

Sai Masu Gida possesses the potential to excel to the level of the most successful football economy in Nigeria, ask those who know, they will affirm this assertion.

Since the club ‘s envious maiden continental glorious campaign, Pillars despite winning the country’s league title in an historic back to back famous achievement, it is  now a shadow of its former self, it is always one day, one trouble for Kano Pillars.

If not for the hydra headed demons at work, why would Pillars continue to live and exit from  the valley of failure at intervals.

The following demonic heads have possessed Kano Pillars and have defied various sports tricks, magic  and left to suffer from the political trial and error methods imposed on the club by the owners.

Kano gov’t

The owners of the club are the chief culprits behind the myriad of problems being suffered by the club. The state government has continued to champion the mission of  those  scavengers that have succeeded in turning the club into a  football carcass .

The club is confirmed to be registered with CAC as a  Limited liability company. The state government has refused to inject life into the club by  not allowing it  to comply with the laid procedures of corporate governance.

The Kano state government in the past nine years has continued to treat this precious asset with  levity and a nonchalant attitude. Kano state government in recent years is confused over how to manage the club, it resorted to converting  the club into a dumping ground, for out of tune football administrators and former athletes cum politicians, to thank them for being good party boys.

A then serving Kano lawmaker was widely reported in the media,  citing the facilitation of the recruitment of an unnamed player from his constituency, into the club  as one of his well executed constituency projects.

Corruption 

Another  canker worm destroying Kano Pillars is corruption, government officials have and  are allegedly conniving   with those in the club system to steal from government coffers. The lean resources channeled to the club from the state government coffers, is now a victim of kill and divide.

There is racketing in  the sales of tickets, illicit players transfer deals and misappropriation of the proceeds from such deals. One of the mother of all corruptions in the club, is in the  buying of equipment, how on earth will a club with the highest prospects  in sports branding and merchandising continue to budget and spend millions on the purchase of equipments, this submerges football business imaginations, in a sane clime.

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The club is swimming in over inflated receipts from away trips. Recruitment of players for the club is now a conduit pipe, recruitment process and contractual terms  of coaches and the salaries of the  players and other officials stinks.

Sabotage

Some sections of Kano born sports administrators, since they are not in charge and their close allies are not in charge,   invoke the heavens to fall on the  club.

Hatred and envy have continued to inspire some persons, who feel, it is either they are in charge or no one else is good enough, they don’t hide their hatred and vigorously continue  to work against the interest of the club, these  clique, whenever  outside the management of Pillars will work hard and stop at nothing to sabotage the club,  they care less to ruin the efforts of those in charge to pave way for their return to take charge directly or by proxy.

Kano Pillars is now a spoil of war, the winner takes all.

Media

The most abused, disjointed, ill equipped  football media brand in Nigeria is Kano Pillars. A good number of media practitioners in the city have suddenly turned football experts dishing out misguided, polluted and fetish concocted opinions polluting the air enveloping the club with toxicity.

We need not get it wrong, Pillars is a darling club, it deserves all the mention, the worries here,  is how some journalists have sold out by prostituting around  the club.

Media practitioners around the club  lack the courage to engage those assigned with the task of running the club, whenever the chip are down, those few who take bold step and have the courage to engage the club are branded as either white or blue enemies, by the self appointed vuvuzelas.

Some journalists have continued to  fall over themselves to be in the good books of the club management or the state government to see how to satisfy their lust of seeing to their been enlisted  into  the club media crew,  lacking the bravery to speak truth to sports authorities in the state.

Seekers want to become the Media Officer of Kano Pillars, even at the cost of ethics and self pride.

Fans club

Kano Pillars fans club has failed to claim its economic, political and spiritual shareholding  in the club.

Former players 

A  clique of former players see Kano Pillars as their birthright, nobody, no matter how good your  capacity, you are not welcome. If you find your way to the club, you will be caught in their web, you cannot operate without the blessings of these players, who will not hesitate to mobilise local forces against any perceived foe.

Kano state football association 

KSFA has failed in playing its supposed role as the football think tank in the state, KSFA is supposed to be the reservoir of Kano Pillars but that is not the case.

The state FA is always busy with the war with imaginary and real enemies of the game, seeing Kano Pillars as its greatest  foe.

KSFA seems lost in understanding its powers over the affairs of Kano Pillars. Today, Kano Pillars is assumed to be bigger than Kano FA, imagine a son becoming bigger than his paternal uncle. This  has undisputedly created  an unwarranted, unhealthy rivalry between the two Kano football super powers

This cold war between Kano FA and Kano Pillars has cost Pillars so much pain, those who know know. 

What bothers you is that Kano state government is the ‘oga at the top’ over these two football giants, rather than call them to order, Kano state government officials – past and present have continued to exploit the  war to pursue their various nefarious agenda within the system.

Way forward

Kano state government must sit and have a rethink, if possible contact independent minded football technocrats, locally and abroad, who will be willing to offer their services pro bono because the club is well loved, they will be willing to offer their services for free.

The Kano state government must decide on whether it wants Kano Pillars, which is a  private, commercial or social club.

The state government must proceed to give the club a disciplined and properly knitted  system of governance to deliver on the set  mission and vision behind the establishment of the club.

Appointment of all kinds of people into the club management in the name of political compensation to run the club must stop. If the club is to be redirected towards been commercially driven, technocrats drawn from sports administration, hospitality industry, merchandising, branding, sports media sectors must be drafted to  govern  the club.

If the mission of the state government is to run the club as a social entity for the purposes of public relations, then appoint a board of five man that would be a mixture of politicians and  sports digital technocrat not analog sports technocrat, then ensure adequate  funding  for  the club to project the image of the government and also win laurels to make the people happy.

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If Kano state government wants a Kano Pillars that is truly a  limited liability  company, it should contract football  investment experts to  help unbundle, then sell  shares worth billions of naira to football happy Kano people and football investors from far and wide, who will be forever happy and grateful  to own the  smallest ownership portion of their darling  club, the state government could also keep a good  chunk of the ownership to itself.

Then the media, medical, and security units of Kano Pillars will go haywire. The fans club will take their rightful place in the affairs of the club. All loopholes presently demonising the club will be beheaded and buried.

Pillars will proceed to be the role model club that it was destined to be, since its inception.

To they that have ears, let them hear.