In a video released yesterday by the Nigeria Football Federation on
their website and YouTube channel, NFF president Amaju Pinnick
addressed the ongoing drama between the NFF and coach
Sunday Oliseh. He asked Nigerians to forgive Oliseh for his outbursts and
move on so the country could qualify for the next African Nations Cup. What he said.
"Actually
we received a letter from Mr Sunday Oliseh apologizing for his
outburst,which to us was quite reckless ,quite unnecessary and rather
very unfortunate.'' Pinnick started
''But a lot
of people are hurt, a lot of people are upset about his outburst,which
we feel is a major distraction considering the fact we have a major
two-header against Egypt ,one of the top teams in Africa.''
''You
know,it's not just seeing a letter of apology and accepting,now we need
to make some repairs,some investments,we need to talk to some
stakeholders that were directly or indirectly affected by his rantings
for example SWAN,SWAN are very mad,Swan has been a major platform for
building football and sports generally in Nigeria. And of course,FIFA
itself rates SWAN very highly.''
''We need to
appeal to SWAN, we need to appeal to their conscience to make them
understand that it is all about Nigeria,now after SWAN we also need to
appeal to the technical committee ,the technical committee they've done a
very thorough job,they wrote a simple letter requesting for a report
and his response was appalling.''
''They feel so slighted, they
feel so hurt and of course even betrayed by us. Look at the calibre of
people in the technical committee, we have Mutiu Adepoju,Christian
Chukwu, Victor Ikpeba, Danladi,you have fresh as the vice Chairman,you
have my brother Green,you have Shuaibu Amodu, This are people that have
contributed immensely to the development of the game on and off the
field of play.''
''So We have to
appeal to them,we need to appeal to a lot of people,we need to appeal
to members of the Nigerian Football Federation,we need to appeal to the
backroom staff that were called names,a lot of people, once we finish
appealing to them and we see that few nerves have been calmed then we
can now look at , we also need to appeal to the ministry, we need to
appeal to the honourable minister, because if you abuse the Nigerian
Football Federation, you're also abusing the Nigerian Government because we
are an arm of the Nigerian government we are tied to their apron
strings whether you like it or not. We need to appeal to our sponsors.
So that's the kind of dilemma that we are in right now''
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