The Brass club, currently rooted to the bottom of the NPL standings with 29 points from 32 matches will no longer honour their matches in the Nigerian top flight following this latest development.
General manager of the club, Tony Ogola said the club are pulling out of the league because "several persons at the NPL secretariat are bent on working against the efforts of the club."
"We are pulling out of the league because several persons at the NPL secretariat are bent on working against the efforts of the club. We will no longer honour league matches and we have already communicated that piece of news to the (NPL) secretariat," Ogola told SuperSport.com.
The club chief also took a swipe at acting executive secretary of the NPL, Tunji Babalola for what he described as sentimental acts directed against Ocean Boys.
"Our problems started when there was a report about N10 million (about $65,000.00 US) missing from the NPL account. They blamed the accountant for the missing funds but I spoke up against it because I told Babalola that it was impossible for such monies to develop wings from an account in which he (Babalola) was a joint signatory.
"Babalola did not take kindly to that and Ocean Boys suffered as a result. Referees who were bent on seeing us lose matches even at home were assigned to our matches and we were eventually banished from Yenagoa," he said.
Ocean Boys, already relegated even before this development, would have been mandated to play in the second tier, the Nigeria National League (NNL) in the 2012/2013 season but Ogola says the club will not take part in the competition.
"There is no point because the structure remains the same. We are pulling out of Nigerian football entirely. Ocean Boys is a privately owned club and I have invested millions of naira into this club. If certain individuals through their own interest would want to rubbish our efforts, then the best step is to pull out of the league," he concluded.
Meanwhile the NPL has denied receiving a formal notice from Ocean Boys as regards their intentions to pull out of the league.
Babalola said the secretariat had yet to receive any formal correspondence from the Brass club on their withdrawal from the league.
"They have not written to us formally so we are not aware at the NPL. As a matter of fact, they have a game today (Saturday) against Wikki Tourists and we expect them to honour the game," Babalola said.
The NPL chief then laughed off the accusations from Ogola that he had a hand in the club's travails this season.
"This is ridiculous accusation and if he has proof, I challenge him to put it in writing," he said.
Ocean Boys were Nigeria champions in 2006.
Curled from Super Sports website.
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