Cheap knockoffs have flooded the market as a result, retailing for around N10,000, significantly less than the expected $85 (N30,000) that the original will trade for.
This is a constant source of frustration for both the federation and its equipment suppliers, with Dikko arguing that it devalues the brand and compromises the country's ability to negotiate good deals with equipment manufacturers.
"The people who will criticise the NFF for not getting a so-called big sponsorship kit deal are the same ones who will undermine our ability to do so by buying the counterfeit jerseys," said the football official.
"It is hard to negotiate a good deal when the people you are negotiating with have to worry about fakes being sold openly in the market."
It is a situation that is almost unique to Nigeria, where sellers of the fake knockoffs advertise their wares openly online and offline with no fear of consequences.
"It is shocking," says Biola Kazeem, a sports marketing consultant.
"Nigeria is the only place where this kind of criminal behaviour will be allowed to go unchecked. Something needs to be done."
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