The Chris Giwa-led faction of the Nigeria Football
Federation has overturned the decision of the
body earlier taken by the opposing faction of
Amaju Pinnick to reinstate Stephen Keshi as the
Super Eagles coach.
The Amaju-led faction replaced Keshi with Amodu
Shaibu a fortnight ago after leading the Super
Eagles to a 3-1 victory over Sudan in Abuja. The
win was the team’s first in four matches in the
qualifying series for the 2015 Africa Cup of
Nations.
The Giwa faction took over the NFF following
Thursday’s ruling by a Jos Federal High Court,
which ordered the return of the status quo in the
NFF before the September 30 election that brought
in the Amaju-led board in Warri.
A part of the communique released on Friday by
the Giwa-led board reads, “The NFF board
reviewed and feels so strongly to sustain the out-
of-contract assignment given to the technical
crew of the Super Eagles led by Stephen Keshi at
a very critical moment like this. Nigerians want
the national team to play well, win and a pride to
them.”
The board also dissolved all committees set up
by the Amaju group and constituted new ones to
manage the nation’s football.
Giwa told Sunday PUNCH on the telephone on
Saturday that he would have no problem bringing
Keshi back to manage the Super Eagles despite
the coach saying he was prepared to move on
after the NFF failed to renew his contract.
“I don’t have problem bringing Keshi back; he has
not told me he was not interested. I’ve spoken
with him and there are positive signs he is ready
to lead the team to success,” Giwa said.
“I’ve never met Keshi before but I cannot agree
with the idea of replacing the coach at a time we
have crucial matches to play and qualify for the
Nations Cup.
“Inasmuch as I don’t have anything against
Amodu, I don’t think it is the right time to bring
him on board. Amodu has not coached any team
in that capacity for a long time, and this is a
crucial time when we need to be on top of
everything.”
The Amaju group, however, said it was not losing
sleep over the activities of the Giwa faction.
The group confirmed on Saturday it has filed a
Stay of Execution at the Federal High Court, Jos
Judicial Division over the court’s ruling of
Thursday.
The hearing of the case Stay of Execution comes
up on Wednesday.
“We’re not losing sleep over this, we’ll get what
we want from the court because we’ve not done
anything wrong by conducting the NFF elections,”
a member of the Amaju-led board said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/nff-crisis-giwa-resumes-recalls-keshi/

Am smelling Fifa ban here

Really

This is Nigeria

smh