Rivers State Commissioner for Sports, Boma Iyaye, has said that the management of Rivers United Football Club has officially written to the League Management Company (LMC), protesting the use of an ineligible player in the club's Match-day 34 encounter with Jigawa Golden Stars in Kaduna.
Jigawa Golden Stars had featured one Christopher Richard in the NPFL fixture despite being informed by the LMC prior to the encounter that he was not eligible to play having accumulated five yellow cards.
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