By Daily sports on March 22, 2021

Sectors and sub-sectors in the country no doubt cannot act differently from the wrongs that are the order of the day in the larger polity.

All right thinking Nigerians can readily attest to the fact that what obtains more in the country is all motion, no movement kind of scenario. Sadly, those that are supposed to enforce sanity in the society are at the centre of all the anomalies’ currently forcing the entire country on bended knees.

Football is not left out as we have seen many avoidable silly decisions taken by both the leadership of the NFF and the head of the technical crew of the Super Eagles, Franco-German technical hand Gernot Rohr in players’ call up. You see the coach placing back benchers in their various clubs, in the first list of players and those that are dazzling in their Grade A clubs also abroad, in the awaiting list or what you also call the waiting list. One stop striker, Paul Onuachu was a victim of this age long injustices that have been the bane of our football at administrative and technical levels.

The injury that hit Rohr’s first choice gave Onuachu the nod, also Enyimba’s red hot player, Anayo Iwuala, got access by the grace of the club of one of the invited players that held back the lad, citing Covid-19 as reason why they would not release him and Iwuala was drafted to replace him for the game against Lesotho in continuation of the next edition of AFCON as the last lap of the qualifiers looms.

That is the way we are in Nigeria and such nonsense further justifies the deep regret, Sunday Oliseh, former Eagles coach and captain expressed during a chat with Channels TV last week, that the standard and quality of players invited to lace their boots for the national team has drastically and shamelessly been lowered for selfish reason(s) best known to those in-charge, presently.

The truth is, due to the dirty deals the leadership of the NFF involves itself with, it has no firm feet on ground to look into the eyes of the culprit to do the needful.

Due to the corruption in NFF leadership, a certain federal government official used his position to stampede NFF leadership and collected huge sums of money to blind the eyes on the goings on there. Yet this particular top government official frightened the corruption ridden NFF leadership and hit gold mine and all the hues and cries about corruption and the chant that NFF bigwigs must face the law went the way many high profile corruption cases perished forever in the country.

My anger ran to high heavens when these same people kept pointing accusing fingers on others. That’s the way Nigeria is. The sleeping dog is allowed to sleep soundly. That is the way Nigeria is run from federal to the local government level. Yet, this noise making Buhari/APC government is hell bent on spreading falsehood and propaganda when the country and all that are within her are daily sinking, as the debt profile runs sky high and borrowing continues unabated. Let us leave it there and move on because all of these are on the public sphere. 

NFF executive committee members and other top people forwarded the list of their players, fueling the corruption in the leadership of the NFF. Nigeria will face Lesotho in their home come March 27 and square up against Benin Republic in Lagos March 30. Both matches are the last lap of the AFCON qualification series that have been on.

The Nigerian side hopefully would turn these countries back as Rohr would also use the games to look at the new boys he has invited to the team for the first time.

Super Eagles, heads or tails will join the best in the continent In Cameroon, in the next edition of Africa’s topmost football summit.

We are looking up to the two marches and Nigerians would be opportune to watch their idols, except for Covid-19 protocols. It would be great seeing Eagles once again in Lagos after many years of absence.

Let us hope for the best as we keep our fingers crossed and foremost, our social media handles are on. Keep shooting hard till next week as the Struggle continues!! 

Source Daily sports

Posted March 22, 2021

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