Former Nigeria coach, Adegboye Onigbinde, said he has personally written to out of contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, to quietly seek greener pastures elsewhere.
Several football figures including Christian Chukwu, Shuaibu Amodu and Kashimawo Laloko, among others, have asked the African Nations Cup winning coach to resign from his position after Nigeria’s non-qualification for next-year’s AFCON in Equatorial Guinea.
Onigbinde said he will not like to repeat himself on the issue as he has specifically asked him before to politely thank President Goodluck Jonathan for considering him worthy for recall and bow out honourably.
“On the very day the Presidency asked him to return to his job, I personally sent him a text message to politely thank Mr. President for the offer and bow out honourably and quietly, too.
“Keshi respectfully replied the text message thanking me and that was it as he went ahead with the two remaining 2015 AFCON qualifying matches against Congo and South Africa, I’m sure the rest is history.
“I volunteered the advice to Keshi because I understand that he won’t work with the Presidency but a different set of people as well as an entirely different environment.
“Now that others have picked up the calls I have the privilege to have said over two months ago I won’t like to engage in an exercise that will appear repetitious so that I won’t be accused of having interest in the whole matter.
“I’m not used to presssurising people to act in certain way, I have passed my view directly to him. I don’t need to pressurise him further on same thing,” Onigbinde told supersport.com.
He insisted that administration is the bane of the nation’s football development, while he condemned the football house for the half-hearted implementation of his suggestions on match analysis.
“The major problem of football in the land is administration, I have written several papers on the need for a virile technical department which is key to football development.
“In other lands it’s called technical and development department because without development then everybody could as well go to sleep.
“I suggested that some people be trained as match analysts, but the persons I saw on the list the NFF sent out made me to laugh.
“The major mistakes we keep repeating are to assume that ex-footballers are automatic administrators, it’s quite wrong.
“Jose Mourinho and Arrigo Sacchi weren’t star players but you can’t rival their administrative and technical finesse,” the ex-Super Eagles coach added. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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