Nigeria, Nov. 5 -- The Nigeria Football Federation has explained Tuesday's suspension of the trial involving its President, Amaju Pinnick, and four others by an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

In a statement on the court decision on Tuesday, the NFF said the Nigerian government withdrew the charges "because the proof of evidence could not sustain the charge."

It added that the decision of the court following the federal government's withdrawal of its case was to "discharge and acquit the defendants."

"On Tuesday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu dismissed the entire case with all 16 charges, and acquitted the NFF chieftains in consideration of the submission of the defence and the prosecution and in line with the rules of administration...