Premier League defending champions, Dolphins of Port Harcourt, has rubbished insinuations that the team is in turmoil over the recent five year suspension clamped on the technical manager of the club, Stanley Eguma.

Spokesman of the club, China Acheru, in a statement poured cold water on such speculations, claiming that Eguma’s position and membership of the team is not in contention.

“There is no controversy whatsoever involving Stanley Eguma as is being bandied about currently,” Acheru starts.

 “There have been stories making the rounds that Stanley Eguma stayed away from the dug-out when Dolphins played against Akwa United in midweek because of the five-year ban on him by the Nigeria Football Federation Disciplinary Committee. He did not stay away from Dolphins bench on Sunday because of that at all.

He was only absent from the bench as a result of an emergency message he recieved and it had nothing to do with the NFF’s ruling.

"Besides we all know that when there is a ruling like that and the people at the wrong end of it decide to file an appeal, the ruling is put on hold until the end of the appeal process,” Acheru said.

The Dolphins spokesman revealed that about two hours to kick off of the match against Akwa United, Eguma got news of an emergency at home and had to rush off leaving Zachary Baraje to take charge for the day.

“We just want to set the records straight because there have been insinuations and we received lots of phone calls and other correspondence to that effect. He is the head of the Dolphins technical crew and remains part of our team,” Acheru concluded.