Nigerians who waited for the much celebrated
signing of contract between the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) and Coach Stephen Keshi
scheduled to take place Friday had their hopes
dashed as the evnt did not hold afterall.

The general secretary of the NFF, Dr. Mohammed
Sanusi had last week said that the two bodies
would sign the contract by Friday.

But checks by Sports Vanguard in Abuja revealed
that the contract signing did not hold because of a
number of factors, including the absence of the
president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick who was said
to be out of the country.

Also it was gathered that another issue that may
have delayed the contract is the fact that the
parent body, the National Sports Commission
(NSC) is still studying the document to ascertain
whether it is in line with the thinking of the
federal government.

Meanwhile, the vice president of the NFF was
apparently not anywhere near Abuja despite the
fact that his boss, Pinnick was out of the country.
“I’m in Lagos and the president is not in the
country,” Akinwumi con-firmed, Friday, adding,
“when we are unveiling
we will let you know.”

Even though Keshi was said to be holed up in a
hotel close to the Wuse Zone 7 office of the
federation waiting to be summoned over, it
seemed that the NFF had no plans for him.
Some quarters are already spreading rumours that
the NFF is stalling until the change of government
to yank the contract offered to Keshi while they
hire new person for the national team job. But,
time may not be on their side as the 2013 AFCON
champions will start their their qualification
campaign for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in
June against Chad in Abuja.

The issue of renewing the contract of Coach Keshi
has been a controversial one

since the end of the 2014 World Cup. Soon after
the Super Eagles started showing signs that they
may not qualify for the last African Cup of
Nations (AFCON), and the federation sacked Keshi
but was forced to rescind due to alleged directive
by the presidency.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/why-keshis-contract-signing-failed/

Lil kesh or stev kesh??