The current problems rocking Nigeria’s apex football
governing body, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been traced to money
issues.
Aminu Maigari was impeached as NFF president on July 24 on the grounds of alleged “financial misappropriation, misapplication and maladministration.”
However, chairmen of the state football associations moved to reject the impeachment of Maigari on July 31 stating that a consensus had been reached to "to reject the resolutions of any alleged board meeting of the executive committee not duly called and/or presided over by Alhaji Aminu Maigari as the incumbent president of the executive committee of the NFF until after the election of Tuesday 26th August, 2014."
Executive committee member of the NFF and chairman of the body’s technical committee, Chris Green has now opined that the dust raised in recent days by the football chiefs was down to money issues.
“The shenanigans and charade at the NFF began just before the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. We had a few problems with the ‘powers that be’,” Green told Nigeria Info FM.
He added that the NFF “stepped on toes” with a predictable backlash experienced afterwards.
“This whole thing boils down to money. It was all about who gets what before the World Cup and who controls what.
“The powers that be wanted us to use a particular travel agency for our World Cup programme but that offer was preposterous and our budget at the NFF would not have been able to accommodate what they were asking for.
“Monies didn’t get down to certain persons who subsequently got very angry. It was like we stepped on toes and that was how these issues began,” he said.
By Sammy Wejinya
Aminu Maigari was impeached as NFF president on July 24 on the grounds of alleged “financial misappropriation, misapplication and maladministration.”
However, chairmen of the state football associations moved to reject the impeachment of Maigari on July 31 stating that a consensus had been reached to "to reject the resolutions of any alleged board meeting of the executive committee not duly called and/or presided over by Alhaji Aminu Maigari as the incumbent president of the executive committee of the NFF until after the election of Tuesday 26th August, 2014."
Executive committee member of the NFF and chairman of the body’s technical committee, Chris Green has now opined that the dust raised in recent days by the football chiefs was down to money issues.
“The shenanigans and charade at the NFF began just before the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. We had a few problems with the ‘powers that be’,” Green told Nigeria Info FM.
He added that the NFF “stepped on toes” with a predictable backlash experienced afterwards.
“This whole thing boils down to money. It was all about who gets what before the World Cup and who controls what.
“The powers that be wanted us to use a particular travel agency for our World Cup programme but that offer was preposterous and our budget at the NFF would not have been able to accommodate what they were asking for.
“Monies didn’t get down to certain persons who subsequently got very angry. It was like we stepped on toes and that was how these issues began,” he said.
By Sammy Wejinya
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