Following a growing list of failures, president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick has been asked to quit or face impeachment and if all these failed, Nigerians should chase out the entire NFF executive committee.
Former NFF disciplinary committee vice-chairman, Iyke Igbokwe, said that “Pinnick is the worst disaster to have inflicted Nigerian football”.
In March, Nigeria failed to qualify for a second straight AFCON.
Last month, the country’s U20 team, the Flying Eagles, also failed to qualify for the U20 AFCON in Zambia, before last weekend, the Golden Eaglets crashed out of the qualifiers for the U17 AFCON.
“If Pinnick still has any honour left in him, he should resign as NFF president by the next 24 hours. And if he failed to do so, the executive committee should impeach him and where they too fail to do so, Nigerians should rise and chase them away,” demanded a highly aggrieved Igbokwe, whose fire-brand activism has earned him the nickname ‘Torchlight of Nigerian football.”
“All our teams will not be in action in Africa next year – the Super Eagles, the Flying Eagles and now the Golden Eaglets.
“And all these are because of the evil that has beset Nigerian football.
“Just one person’s selfish and personal ambitions have mortgaged the fortunes of Nigerian football right from when he got to power through the back door.
“Why will God want you to succeed after the dark forces that threw you up through highly illegal and dubious ways?”
Igbokwe added: “When the Flying Eagles crashed out, the first vice-president (Seyi Akinwunmi) apologised on behalf of the board.
“Should we continue to accept apologies from these people?
“No. We should chase them out.”
Igbokwe said he expects doom to befall the country’s campaign to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after they were drawn in a very difficult qualifying group that has Algeria, Cameroon and Zambia.
“It will be another disaster in the World Cup qualifiers because as long as Pinnick is overseeing Nigerian football, we will not come out of this very difficult group,” he predicted.
“The entire Nigerian football is doomed”.
