Nigerian Football
PHOTO: PINNICK, SANUSI REGAIN CONTROL OF NIGERIA FOOTBALL HOUSE
BY KUNLE SOLAJA.
Normalcy may have returned to the governing body of Nigerian football, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the Department of State Security (DSS) on Monday morning reportedly acting on presidential orders have reinstated the Amaju Pinnick board.
According to a source, the DSS operatives entered the offices of the NFF asking all the staff and those occupying various offices since July 2 to vacate immediately.
The DSS, who said they were working on instructions from above made sure nobody, was left inside the secretariat after the clearance.
Few hours after this exercise, the Secretary General of the NFF, Dr. Muhammed Sanusi, was led to his office by officers of the DSS, where he had resumed his duties as the head of the football federation secretariat.
Dr. Sanusi Mohammed on his duty post this Monday.
The president’s office was also cleared in readiness for the resumption of the Amaju Pinnick who will return to Nigeria on Tuesday after supervising the CAF Round Table symposium with the five African representatives to the 2018 Russia World Cup x-raying the continent’s poor showing at the biggest soccer competition in the world