World Cup ticket: We have a good case, Nigeria can still qualify, says Dikko

Chairman, National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko, has raised the hope that Nigeria could still qualify for the oncoming World Cup of the global football association if FIFA rules in favour of the country in a petition challenging an infraction by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).
The NSC boss, who spoke to newsmen after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, said: “Ourselves and the NFF submitted to FIFA, what we feel were the breaches against the rules and regulations, which is also part of sports, it’s not being sore losers, it’s just what it is. So, the relevant bodies of FIFA are dealing with it, and we are hoping, any moment, we will hear their decisions. But we are confident we have a good case. But I keep saying, we have put the World Cup behind us already. Whatever happens, it is what it is. But we are not looking at that, we are looking at how do you build for the next competitions, the next AFCON, the next WAFCON is next month?
“You can see how we pushed the performance at the last AFCON in Morocco, everybody was happy about it. So World Cup is a closed chapter, but yes, we have a pending legal issue to deal with. It’s not within our competence to do, our own is to say this is what we feel was the wrong thing that was done, and we leave it. Even FIFA, it’s not the FIFA deciding, there are independent bodies in FIFA who are independent of FIFA; disciplinary committee, ethics committee, are independent bodies of FIFA, they make their decision based on what they see on the rules and they won’t tell you, we are doing it tomorrow or next tomorrow, when they finish, they will tell the world. But we are confident that, yes, if it is legal issues, we have a good case. That’s why we submitted the case”.