Nigerian football in transition – Amadu

General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Musa Amadu yesterday said the current crisis going on in Nigerian football is a phase which will reposition the game in the long run.

In a chat with journalists in Abuja,

Amadu said the controversy generated by the two versions of the NFF Electoral Appeals
Committee report has been taken care of by the position of the World Football governing body (FIFA) which endorsed the report of the majority of the committee members which upheld the Warri election.

Musa Amadu

Recall that while the four members of the Appeals committee which included the two alternate members upheld the September 30 election, the chairman of the committee, Barr. Okey Ajunwa in what many have termed the minority report annulled the election of the president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick, his first vice president, Seyi Akinwumi as well as two members, Felix Ayansi-Agwu and Sheriff Inua representing the South East and North West respectively.

On why he did not forward the report of the committee as released by the chairman to FIFA on time, Amadu explained that he only received the said report through a courier mail days after the report was out.

“The chairman of the Appeals committee sent the report to FIFA on the 5th of December and that letter was now sent to us by FIFA to see. If in the eyes of FIFA we have sent a letter which came through the secretary of the Appeals committee and which was signed by other members my duty as the general secretary is to bring it to the attention of FIFA and of course if the chairman of the Appeals committee has sent the report to FIFA why not. This is the copy of the report I received from the committee and as soon as I got it I forwarded it to FIFA and with the letter I received from FIFA yesterday I hope the crisis is over.

“Obviously we are in a transition period as long as many matters are concerned and I want to assure Nigerians that very soon all these will be over and our football will be the better for it”.

The scribe further revealed that the NFF will do everything necessary to prepare the senior national team, the Super Falcons adequately for the 2015 Women World Cup to be hosted in Canada.

- Vanguard News