With the Kenyan Premier League set to kick off tomorrow across the country, AFC Leopards has been thrown into state of confusion with one group declaring they will take part in the FKF League.

Yesterday it was reported Leopards secretary General George Aladwa had written to Football Kenya Federation confirming the club will take part in their League. FKF also confirmed Muhoroni Youth had written to them on the same.

Today Mathew’s Oporwa led camp has also confirmed they had written to FKF confirming they will take part in the FKF league and hailed Aladwa’s decision to have the club play in the Federation league.

According to Oporwa, the club will only take part in a league sanctioned by the federation.

“We have made one decision, to take part in the FKF league, yesterday we confirmed to FKF we will take part in their league since they are the only people sanctioned to run a football league” Oporwa said.

“We want to thank our secretary general George Aladwa who also confirmed the club will take part in the FKF league; we want to urge those opposing him to change their stand and support him” he added.

Leopards have been in State of confusion after the Oporwa group met and voted out the entire Leopards officials led by Chairman Allan Kasavuli. However Kasavuli has continued to actively represent the club in KPL meetings including the recent FKF/KPL meeting at Southern Sun.

Oporwa has further urged both FKF and KPL to find an ending solution into the matter insisting it might have a negative impact to football development.

“Those two parties should come together and find a solution, 16 vs. 18 teams cannot be major reason to stall progress of the league in the country, there are better ways of solving the problem? He said.

‘We plead with both of them to form one league as earlier agreed, we want to see progress in the league” Oporwa maintained.

The KPL league will kick off tomorrow while FKF league kicked off last week and meeting convened by Sports CS Hassan Wario ended in stalemate as both sides failed to reach an agreement.

Yesterday the FKF national executive committee met to discuss on the way forward with reports suggesting KPL clubs which had confirmed their participation in the league will be replaced by nationwide clubs.

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