Resign if Eagles fail, Obasanjo tells NFA
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Resign if Eagles fail, Obasanjo tells NFA
2004 AFRICAN NATIONS CUP COUNTDOWN:
Resign if Eagles fail, Obasanjo tells NFA members
••• Minister scared to face president at FEC meeting
By Ade Ojeikere
President Olusegun Obasanjo has tacitly instructed members of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) board to be prepared to resign their appointment if the Super Eagles fail to qualify for the finals of the 2004 African Nations Cup competition.
Indications to this effect emerged from the presidency on Sunday when the news of the defeat suffered by the country’s U-23 Eagles filtered into Obasanjo’s ears at Aso Rock villa.
Indeed, Obasanjo had taken keen interest in football following Enyimba FC’s historic feat and was left shattered with the news of Nigeria’s likely ouster from the Athens Olympic Games football event that the Dream Team I clinched the gold medal in Atlanta in 1996.
It was gathered that a detail account of the poor records of the country’s national teams was reeled out to the President, who immediately gave the mandate to the present board to ensure that the Eagles qualify for the finals of Tunisia African Nations Cup or tender their letters of resignation for a new board to be constituted.
NewAgeSports’ impeccable source in the presidency revealed that Obasanjo has instructed the Sports Minister Musa Mohammed to inform the NFA members that he would not accept a situation whereby Nigeria goes to the Athens Olympics Games without the male and female football teams.
Resign if Eagles fail, Obasanjo tells NFA members
••• Minister scared to face president at FEC meeting
By Ade Ojeikere
President Olusegun Obasanjo has tacitly instructed members of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) board to be prepared to resign their appointment if the Super Eagles fail to qualify for the finals of the 2004 African Nations Cup competition.
Indications to this effect emerged from the presidency on Sunday when the news of the defeat suffered by the country’s U-23 Eagles filtered into Obasanjo’s ears at Aso Rock villa.
Indeed, Obasanjo had taken keen interest in football following Enyimba FC’s historic feat and was left shattered with the news of Nigeria’s likely ouster from the Athens Olympic Games football event that the Dream Team I clinched the gold medal in Atlanta in 1996.
It was gathered that a detail account of the poor records of the country’s national teams was reeled out to the President, who immediately gave the mandate to the present board to ensure that the Eagles qualify for the finals of Tunisia African Nations Cup or tender their letters of resignation for a new board to be constituted.
NewAgeSports’ impeccable source in the presidency revealed that Obasanjo has instructed the Sports Minister Musa Mohammed to inform the NFA members that he would not accept a situation whereby Nigeria goes to the Athens Olympics Games without the male and female football teams.
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I hope Obasonjo knows he has bigger fish to fry. But then, I want to see these punks at the NFA sweat a bit.
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Correction, he is a very keen Squash player and likes sports. I really do not think that OBJ has given such an ultimatum in public. These guys will run riot knowing fully well that they are mince meat. They know they will not get to the final, they need a miracle for that to happen.Cellular wrote:I don't think Obasanjo knows that the ANC is coming up... di man no care at all at all about sports...
I just wish Uncle Sege did a proper analysis as to why our SE with all its talent is a mess. He will find his corrupt civil servants are the problem.
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