Football Federation Kenya, FKF presidential aspirant Lodvick Aduda has accused Nick Mwendwa of using the High Court for his own selfish interests.

Aduda says that Mwendwa has resorted to waging proxy wars on the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) by using the High Court.

This comes a day after two FKF officials, Lilian Nadundu (NEC member) and Gabriel Mughendi (FKF South Coast branch chairman) obtained a High Court order in Mombasa barring the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) from deliberating on cases related to football.

Aduda wondered why Mwendwa only chose to respect SDT selectively when decisions favoured him.

“When the ruling favours him, the Tribunal is good but when decisions contradict his expectations, then Tribunal is bad.”

While citing two cases in which Mwendwa was a beneficiary of the Tribunal’s verdicts, Aduda reminded him that SDT was a product of the Sports Act just like FKF and he should therefore respect it.

“When they took office, they successfully appealed to SDT to have the number of teams participating in the KPL adjusted from 16 to 18. In February, SDT ruled that Nick should remain in office until the next elections.” He said that all this boiled down to a ploy deviced by the federation to place hurdles on the path of people perceived as opponents.

“It’s obviously meant to block those pursuing justice from the tribunal.” Aduda said that it was extremely unfair for the federation to disregard an institution established by law to arbitrate disputes in sports.

He further said that FKF’s move to resort to the corridors of ordinary courts for justice was contrary to FIFA statutes.”Ironically, this is coming from FKF officials who are aware of the Fifa law that discourages local federations from contesting football matters in ordinary courts of law,” said Aduda.”