NFF sack ‘slow motion’ Technical Committee NOW!

Anytime l just have the misfortune of thinking about the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). honestly I feel very upset and depressed because I just can’t understand why a group of people will go ahead and accept a highly sensitive national public office even when they know very well that they are not in anyway fit and capable to deliver the assignment of the office.

Yes, I can’t fathom how a group of adults will just just walk into a serious department of an organization like the NFF, just sit down and do nothing except giving Football Nigerians unwarranted tensions and emotional heart tremors simply because the group of people who willing took the job without anybody’s prodding can’t perform a simple task of selecting a coach for our national teams promptly.

Seriously, the high blood pressure the NFF Technical Committee is giving Football Nigerians is more dangerous than the heart quakes or aches we got from the “Park The Bus” alien football system served us by departed foreign coach Jose Peseiro at the just-concluded AFCON in Cote d’Ivoire, which sent a lot vibrant young Nigerians to their early unscheduled meeting with Baba God.

Sincerely, l and a lot of Nigerians don’t understand the reason and motive of the NFF Technical Committee in continuously delaying the appointment of our indigenous national team coaches till the dying minutes.

The NFF Technical Committee now publicly dubbed – “Slow Motion NFF Technical Committee”, will just wait and doing nothing until few weeks to the commencement of an important international competition, before lazily announcing the appointment of one helpless indigenious coach as the coach of a particular national team.

For crying out very, very loud, I will ask the following questions to nobody in particular, but to all of us –

Why do some people stay on an important assignment and do nothing? And still continue in Office?

Why do some people like occupying sensitive public office at all costs whether they are capable or not? And blocking the right people that can function effectively in the process?

Why do some people like staying in an office when they personally know that they are grossly incapable of delivery the tasks of the Office?

Because to me, that’s another exhibition of extreme wickedness and unpatriotism against an innocent people and an entire nation at large.

This is exactly the case with the “Slow Motion” NFF Technical Committee members who have shown with their consistent delays in the crucial task of appointing national team coaches.

The actions of the NFF Technical Committee show clearly that they don’t have any clues of the Great Responsibility that Nigerian Football saddled them with.

The needless delays from the “Slow Motion” NFF Technical Committee have become suffocating and obscene. And needs to be talked about. Because the unexplainable refusal of the Technical Committee to do a very simple job of appointing national team coaches in time to enable them have enough time to tinker our national teams properly.

To me seems to be a carefully scripted plot to sabotage the indigenious coaches. Who through the consensus loud echoes of Patriotic Football Nigerians that strongly demanded that our indigenious coaches take charge of the national teams this time around.

Because from my deep thoughts, the motive behind the consistent late appointment of indigenious coaches by the NFF Technical Committee is so, the indigenious coaches will due to the late appointment, fail in their assignment. And Nigerians will as usual troll them and call for their sack.

The NFF Technical Committee is deliberately leaving the appointments of indigenous coaches of national teams very late. So, the indigenous csoaches will fail and Football Nigerians will start clamouring for the return of the expensive foreign coaches.

So, they will resume their Foreign Coach “salary kick back” racqueteering which was revealed by one Player’s Agent, Jolly Ogu, during Peseiro’s time as Super Eagles coach.

I have no option than to believe this theory because the NFF Technical Committee did it with indigenous coach Ladan Bosso, who the Committee appointed the Coach of our U20 Flying Eagles just barely two weeks to the African Games, where of course Bosso and his boys failed to the serious trolling of Nigerians who called for his immediate removal.

Then as if the consequences of the very late appointment of Bosso for the African Games was not enough lesson,  the same NFF Technical Committee has gone ahead to wait for almost two years before just appointing indigenious coach, Manu Garba, last week as the Coach of the U17 Golden Eaglets.

This is just some few weeks to the crucial WAFU B U17 Tournament, which is a prelude to the U17 AFCON and the World Cup.

As we speak now the lethargic “Slow Motion” NFF Technical Committee is still battling with the appointment of the next Super Eagles coach since the last coach Peseiro threw in the towel in March.

And the Super Eagles have scheduled crucial World Cup Qualifiers in June after a most disappointing opening two games.

So, while a lot of people are wont to believe that the “Slow Motion” NFF Technical Committee are just incompetent and inept, leading to the late appointments. I believe that the main reason for the lateness by the NFF Technical Committee might not just be caused by incompetence alone but because of the dastard intention for the indigenous coaches not to have enough time to display their abilities. And fail. So, Nigerians will call for their sack and replace them with foreign coaches.

Can you imagine the Chairman of the “Slow Motion” Committee coming out openly to inform Nigerians that his Technical Committee didn’t have any hand or input in the employment of the last Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro.

The NFF Technical Committee Chairman lamented that it was rather the former President of the NFF and the then Sports Minister that supervised all the processes leading to coach Peseiro’s engagement with the Super Eagles.

This confession by the Technical Committee Chairman is indeed not good to hear because this is just clear abdication of duty by the NFF Technical Committee, which is saddled with the specific job of screening and appointing national team coaches for the nation.

And this mandate of the NFF Technical Committee is provided for in the NFF Statutes 2010. So, an honourable Technical Committee should have resigned enmasse upon the trespass on the duties by the former NFF President and Sports Minister.

But did the members of the NFF Technical Committee resign as a result of the encroachment on their areas of mandate?

No, the”Slow Motion” NFF Technical Committee members didn’t.

Instead, they are still there, doing nothing. And maybe waiting for the current Minister and NFF President to direct them on who to give the national team coaching job, just like the Committee did with the last NFF Board, where Peseiro was appointed.

I am therefore calling on the NFF Board led by accountant lbrahim Gusau to please do the needful by decamping and dismantling his “Slow Motion” Technical Committee NOW to save innocent Football Nigerians from further emotional torture and heartaches.

The present Gusau-led NFF Board has so far done well within its short time in office. Nigerians have given them a strong benefit of doubt akin to a vote of confidence.

The admirable displays of the Gusau NFF-appointed Boards of the major leagues (NPFL, NNL, NLO and NWFL) have taken to heartwarming levels, which Nigerians appreciate and applaud.

Then, the youth football development lnitiative being anchored with FIFA is yet another achievement of the Gusau-led NFF.

But all these positives are being singly eroded and destroyed by the “Slow Motion” NFF Technical Committee for no just cause.

The Gusau led-NFF Board would be doing itself and Nigeria Football a world of good if they heeded my sincere patriotic counsel.

By Barrister lyke lgbokwe *Torchlight of Nigeria Football

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