By Daily Sports on April 13, 2020

I don’t know if you have been following the dirty drama called football politics which the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, and his allies have been shamelessly playing. I continue to wonder if they are aware that the international community is keenly watching amid the COVID-19 scourge that rules the globe this moment.

What is going on in the minds of these actors? What do they take the rest of us to be? What do they think they are actually acting out in a badly written script? Bluntly put, it remains bitter and sour in the mouth of objective and keen followers of NFF’s dirty and crude politics.

Honestly, this writer is yet to figure out the motive behind this uncivilised rubbish the NFF President and few of his hatchet men are trying to arrive at and in whose interest. It is self-serving and obviously anti-people.

Gernot Rohr, the Franco-German handler of the Super Eagles, has caught NFF with her local 419 tricks pants-down, hence he agreed to take up the Eagles job despite NFF’s bitter pill conditionalities in the new contract. Rohr obviously is an intelligent man and wants to see the end of this Pinnick and gang nonsense.

I don’t know about you but I have been keenly following the village boy tricks the supposedly civilised football federation is pushing childishly. No doubt, it is a shame. The body is behaving as if nobody is advising it. The body is also acting as if it operates in isolation and is above the law.

Let us be honest, there is nothing under the sun that justifies the hide-and-seek game which NFF is playing with the renewal or extension of Rohr’s contract. I said this earlier on this page that all these conditionalities by NFF are just a way to buy time as it looks as if they are no longer at ease with the services of the Franco German technical hand. That informs their resort to their usual traditional tricks which had in the past proved costly to the country and at the same time rubbed mud on the little remaining image left for the country.

Pinnick’s NFF seems to have forgotten how many coaches it approached and who turned down the offer to work in Nigeria due largely to how NFF treated her past coaches. Let me repeat that Amaju Pinnick and his gang of traitors are not smart at all. Amaju Pinnick and his cabal are on the edge right now because their hide-and-seek game is up.

Though the body would be denying what is happening in relation to its continued face-off with Gernot Rohr over contract extension or renewal but the truth remains that Amaju Pinnick and his few gang members are not sincere about the happenings around the whole issue.

The bitter clauses NFF deliberately planted that would ordinarily turn off the white coach has been reportedly accepted by Rohr and now NFF is not only surprised but also in a fix. The body wants to relieve the coach of his job through some flimsy excuses but to its shock, the coach without any hassle agreed to the nonsense in the contract. This position by Rohr on these hard pills jolted Amaju Pinnick.

Rohr reportedly said emphatically that he accepted the conditionalities because he wants to lead the Super Eagles to both the AFCON and World Cup summits in 2021 and 2023 in Cameroun and United Arab Emirates respectively. NFF has been left dumbfounded by that deadly blow. My take is that Amaju Pinnick and his gangsters must be ready to take full responsibility if anything happens to the steady and smooth exploits by the Super Eagles in both AFCON and World Cup qualifiers before the suspension by CAF and FIFA because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As I reported during the politics of Rohr’s employment spearheaded by Amaju Pinnick, his spirited efforts to twist the hands of the body’s technical committee then headed by no-nonsense Chris Green created a wide gulf between both men. That explains why Chris Green decided not to seek re-election. Now that there seems to be this opposition in the renewal of Rohr’s by the same person (Amaju Pinnick) that facilitated his employment in the first place, Green will readily tell you that NFF will definitely sign the dotted lines with Rohr after this initial gra-gra by the football body.

According to him, “It is in the character of the football house and I will come out to apologise to Nigerians if Rohr fails to sign his second term contract with the NFF.” Green added that the time to do the needful is now so that the Franco-German sweat merchant would continue with his job. He dismissed the rumours making the rounds that Emmanuel Amuneke and few others have been penciled down to succeed the foreign technical hand.

Green informed that the coach is truly looking inwards to beef up the team, adding that if he does that, the Super Eagles team would bounce back powerfully as one of the most solid squads in the continent.

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Source Daily Sports

Posted April 13, 2020

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