Ben Idogho Agarry , a former executive member of the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) has faulted the decision to sack Super Eagles gaffer ,Stephen Keshi as wrong ,hasty and describing it as portending danger for the country in its quest to qualify for AFCON 2017 holding in Gabon.
Agarry alleged that the Amaju Pinnick led Board is toeing the grand design of former president of the Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari in getting out Keshi due to the fact that Keshi’s mentor ,former president Goodluck Jonathan is no longer in power in the country.
He criticized the Board of the NFF as lacking focus and insincere in its dealing with the Edo born tactician after winning the AFCON for the country in 2013 despite the Federation not giving him any chance.
He berated the Board of doing same to Keshi in 2013 when the NFF under the former president Aminu Maigari approached former Zambia’s coach Herve Reinhard to take the reins of leadership of the Super Eagles during the AFCON 2013 in South Africa only for the same Keshi to win the tournament .
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The decision to sack Keshi was totally uncalled for ,wrong ,immoral and does not have any justification whatsoever .NFF did the same thing to Keshi in 2013 by approaching Herve Reinard when he was in charge of the Zambian national team”
“I don’t see us qualifying for AFCON 2017 not to talk of World Cup .The handwriting are on the wall and it is too unfortunate for us instead of us to come together and build a team the NFF Board is pulling down the structure” he lamented to Blueprint Sports last night .
“Why is it written in their contractual agreement that Keshi cannot talk with any other teams ? He asked rhetorically.
The former FCT F.A chairman posited that the NFF is just punishing Keshi for a sin he committed two years ago and insisted that the decision will jeopardize our qualification for AFCON 2017 .
He also lambasted the choice of Salihu Yusuf and Shaibu Amodu as Caretaker coach due to several factors especially Yusuf not having any international exposure.
“This is badly timed; a time that we are preparing for competitions, coaches are being sacked. This is the time the NFF is supposed to sit down and think of how to move the teams forward.
“You will see the repercussion, and we will have ourselves to blame in the end,” he concluded.
