NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has described as
puerile and a dagger in the back claims in some quarters that he was working
against the success of the national team, the Super Eagles ahead of Mundial
2014 in Brazil.
He further lambasted a section of the sporting media that
have the belief that he wants the failure of national team handler, Stephen
Okechukwu Keshi, so that he can be fired for a foreign handler. Speaking in Abuja,
Maigari, declared that it will be foolhardy for him to destroy what he has
built.
Hear him:“ When the former Coach Samson Siasia left the
stage for obvious reasons, how many of those who are fronting for Keshi today
wanted him as the Nigerian coach.
But in my wisdom and after talking to our
executive committee members, he was appointed the Head Coach and he will agree
with the whole world that we have been supporting him. Some people just want to
create sensation of publicity for themselves and use perceived disagreement
with Keshi to insult us and win public acclaim. For the records I can never
work against a man that we collectively made the highest paid Nigerian alive today”.
The NFF President also had harsh words for internet journalists
who have been feasting on the supposed rift in the football family. He said
most of them write without facts and have been damaging the reputation of
Nigerian football and that of the coaching crew of the national team rather
than building it.
“If anyone is in doubt they should ask questions but they
will never do that, they go on facebook, twitter and use all other manner of
media to damage the reputation of the leadership of Nigerian football without
asking questions.
Henceforth, such flagrant abuse of the media will no longer
be acceptable to us. I don’t want to mention names but those concerned know
themselves and for the last time I want to appeal to them to allow us
concentrate on preparations for the World Cup rather than causing all manner of
distractions”, he said.
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