President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Alhaji
Aminu Maigari, returned to the Secretariat of the NFF on Monday and
pledged to work together with the entire Nigerian football family ahead
of the coming elections into the NFF Executive Committee.
“There
is no victor and no vanquished. We must all come together in the
interest of the game. We are all adults and we must have differences,
but I am happy that those differences are now in the past and we are now
of the same accord,” Maigari said as he settled into his chair.
Maigari
was on Thursday last week restored to office by the world football
governing body, FIFA, after weeks of uncertainty at the Glass House,
during which his members of Executive Committee said they had impeached
him based on sundry allegations.
Maigari
Last
Friday, the Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports
Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, asked Maigari to go back to office, and
the 58 –year old former school teacher arrived at the NFF Secretariat
before noon on Monday.
He met Chief Mike Umeh, Shehu
Adamu and Mr. Ayodeji Tinubu, some of his board members, in the office,
and after hours of deliberation, Chairman of the NFF Media and Publicity
Committee, Chief Emeka Inyama, disclosed that the board had come
together once more and that the interest of Nigerian football had
prevailed.
“We are one big family, as we have always
been. There were disagreements and misunderstanding for a number of
weeks, but FIFA has cleared the air and the government has weighed in on
the side of FIFA.
“In the interest of the game in
Nigeria, we have all resolved to bury our differences and rather work
towards evolving a roadmap for the coming elections. There will be a
meeting of the Executive Committee on Tuesday, 19 August,” Inyama said.
What
is most likely to be on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting is the issue
of Super Eagles’ Head Coach, as the minutes tick speedily toward the
2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches.
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