The members of Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee have resigned en-masse over the refusal of the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick to implement their recommendation of sacking the Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh over his senseless ranting on YouTube.
The Technical Committee comprising eminent Nigerians like Christian Chukwu, Paul Bassey, Victor Ikpeba, Mutiu Adepoju and Garba Lawal. After the now infamous “insane” attack on Nigerians by Oliseh on YouTube, the NFF had referred the case to the Technical Committee to recommend penalties to be meted out to the loquacious coach.
The Committee after exhaustive deliberations, submitted their recommendation to Pinnick but were utterly disappointed that Pinnick instead of implementing their recommendation, jettisoned the report and instead ran to the Youth and Sports Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung who saved the loquacious coach by asking that he should be given a second chance for him.
“The Committee recommended for his outright dismissal after they agreed that he had violated his contract”, according to Vanguard source. Chairman of the Technical Committee, Barrister Chris Green confirmed to Vanguard the development but said that he was working hard to ensure that the “wise” men rescind their decisions.
“It is true that they are not keen to work again but I am prevailing on them to think twice because of their love and passion for the game and patriotism for the country. They cannot be treated with levity. They are heavyweights on their own and they are not paid a dime for their services”, Green said. The Technical Committee have not had a smooth relationship with Oliseh after the coach said he had nothing to do with them when they queried him following a dismal outing in CHAN.
A member of the Technical Committee who was visibly angry with the handling of the Oliseh case said that the coach would mess up Pinnick. “If they fail to take punitive action on him, he’ll mess them up. The problem is with Amaju (Pinnick) because he wants to please everybody. They gave him (Oliseh) the job on sentiment and that is the result. As for me, I can’t stay to watch him insult the Technical Committee. We all played for this country and deserve respect”, the source, who does not want his name in print, said.
