Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick narrowly escaped being
impeached by his fellow executive committee members in the wake of the
scandalous handling of botched appointment of French coach Paul Le Guen.
According to
AficanFootball.com, Wednesday’s executive committee meeting in Abuja was so
stormy that at the height of the disagreement,
board members threatened to impeach Pinnick after they demanded to know
the full details of the sponsorship deal he secured to cover the contract of a
foreign coach.
An official,
who gave AfricanFootball.com a graphic picture of the face-off, said Pinnick
was “less than presidential” after his fellow board members threatened to
impeach him.
“Pinnick cut
a very, very pathetic picture when he was faced with impeachment as board
members told him in clear terms they wanted to have all the details of the
financials regarding the foreign coach the NFF plan to hire,” the official told
only AfricanFootball.com
“He was
humiliated, thoroughly humiliated.
“You wouldn’t
believe it that he had to beg and beg they should not disgrace him and it was
only after he promised to divulge all the details of the sponsorship that he
was let off the hook.”
An
Abuja-based reporter told AfricanFootball.com Pinnick was badly ruffled and
really shaken up after the meeting.
Public
opinion in both traditional media and social media has been against the
continuation of Pinnick and the NFF in office.
This latest
row further underlines the serious cracks in the NFF executive committee and
the ongoing power play there.
And it comes
only days before the much-advertised visit of FIFA president Gianni Infantino
to Nigeria.
Infantino is
due in Abuja on Sunday on a two-working visit during which he will pay a
courtesy call on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
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