Gor Mahia CEO Omondi Aduda has said resorting to a play-off to determine the 2019/20 Kenyan Premier League champions will be going against the rules of engagement.

KPL CEO had suggested a play-off might be one of the ways to determine the general winner is the season is halted owing to the Covid-19.

However, the K’Ogalo administrator is not convinced the method should even be considered.

“Has it ever happened anywhere? I don’t think that is viable because that is why we call it a league,” Aduda is quoted by Goal.

“If it is a league, the winner has to be a team which has amassed more points either in a straight way or on a technicality. Rules of engagement are usually laid down before the beginning of the league.

“We cannot turn back and start insinuating other things that are not part of the laid down mechanisms of determination.”

Aduda believes the best KPL management can do is wait for the elite leagues to settle the same issue and then set the precedent.

“The solution depends on what we are having; those are discussions going on even in the elite stage. What do the laid down criteria give us? What is the latitude?

“If there is a latitude of determination during such moments, then we get to it; in the absence of that then we do not have the moral authority to come up with suggestions that have not been universally agreed on. Because the rules of engagements mean even the federation has to be involved,” he added.

“And the federation will not be involved in the National Executive Level (NEC), but the General Assembly’s level because it is the highest legislative organ.”

Gor Mahia, Kakamega Homeboyz, Tusker, and Ulinzi Stars sit on the first four positions on the KPL table.

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