“The lawyer said repeatedly that Blatter gave that letter on his personal recognition as Sepp Blatter, not as FIFA President.

“The chairman also asked the head of FIFA’s legal department why he didn’t go for the Warri election and he said he didn’t know about it.

“I say this before God and the press today that FIFA denied recognising Pinnick before the CAS, take me anywhere because all the presentations were recorded,’’ Giwa added.

He added that Pinnick and his board members had committed contempt having written as NFF President to FIFA after the nullification of their elections.

According to Giwa: “The letter sent by FIFA on April 11 (Monday) has also indicted Pinnick and FIFA cannot intimidate us with ban unless when we go out of the rules.

“We never flouted; when they talk about not going to court, it is in their statute (article 1.1) and it’s even in the NFF statutes.

“If they do anything bad to us, we will challenge them before CAS’’

On Monday, Fifa issued a statement that it was observing the situation in Nigerian football and it would not hesitate to band the NFF from participating in football internationally.

Below is the full text of Giwa’s speech during the media chat:

“We want to assure the nation that this is a mandate we are going to stick to with extreme patience. We must liberate Nigerian football from the clutches of those who fed on it and make it an investor-friendly game. We have decided to embark on this well-thought-out battle. We appreciate the enormity of opposition ahead of us but we shall conquer.

“We went through the laid down processes in the NFF Statute ahead of the 26th August 2014 electoral process. We got elected and sworn-in by the electoral committee the NFF Congress set up led by Mr. Amoni Biambo.

“In the processes of the post election issues, President Goodluck Jonathan intervened. Out of respect for his office and person, we went down and sought the Federal High Court Jos to step down the matter with a proviso that if we are not satisfied, we reserve the right to return to court.

“We opted to leave the matter until the illegal occupants of our mandate feeling cozy decided to run all of us including the media, players, coaches etc out of administering our game from the next election. They want only chairmen of state FAs to be the only ones eligible to contest. We returned to court and here we are today.

“FOOTBALL MATTERS AND CIVIL COURT: Article 1.1 of Fifa Statute and Article 1.1 of NFF Statute are very clear. Both organisations admitted to subservience to national laws of nations. In Fifa’s case, they agreed to be subservient to Swiss laws and the NFF to Nigerian laws.

“Article 1.1 of Fifa Statute states: The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is an association registered in the Commercial Register in accordance with art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code.