The Nigerian Foot­ball Federation (NFF) has upheld the decision of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) club owners towards end­ing the hitherto suspend­ed 2019/2020 league season by accepting the Point Per Game (PPG) option.

With this ratification, Plateau United are the of­ficial league winner while Rivers United are second with Enyimba placing third. Lobi Stars that have been crying foul are fourth on the table.

While Plateau United and Rivers United will fly the country’s flag in next season’s CAF Champions League, Enyimba and Kano Pillars will repre­sent the country in the CAF Confederation Cup.

The club chairmen had on Sunday adopted the Point Per Game mod­el, where the total points accumulated by any club were divided by the num­ber of games played so far, which a couple of clubs, particularly Lobi Stars, kicked against.

However, the NFF called an enlarged meeting and in attendance were the League Management Com­pany (LMC), as well as the club owners. Resolutions at the meeting, as obtained, indicated that the NFF ad­opted the PPG but said that in the event that two clubs tie, goals difference will be used to separate them.

Consequently, from the new table obtained, Pla­teau United finished first on the log with 1.96 points and they are followed by Rivers United with 1.8o points, and same as third placed Enyimba but the former had a superior goals difference of 1.87.

In the fourth place are Lobi Stars with 1.72 PPG, while Rangers Interna­tional of Enugu finished fifth with 1.54 PPG.

Meanwhile, Rivers Unit­ed have praised the NFF and the League Manage­ment Company for adopt­ing the PPG model that gave them CAF Champi­ons League slot.

Franklin Owhor, the club chairman in a state­ment said that club wish to express their deepest appreciation to NFF, LMC for revising the decision of Club owners on the con­clusion of the league.

“We encourage your determination towards ensuring justice, fairness and equity by listening to our outcry. Today (yester­day), you have resolved to prove your desires to take the game to enviable height, and we also extend our thanks to our resilient and hardworking Com­missioner of Sports Riv­ers State for taking our protest and cry forward to get us CAF champions league slot. However, we still and ever remain in­debted as true partners in the game.”

Lobi United are believed to have described the rat­ification as open robbery.