AT last, the highly publicized unveiling of
Stephen Keshi as Super Eagles’ coach will take
place on Tuesday, the President of the Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has
said.

The unveiling ceremony earlier fixed for last
Friday in Abuja failed to materialize,
prompting some Nigerians to insinuate that
the NFF is holding out May 29 for President
Goodluck Jonathan to hand over government
before announcing a coach of their choice,
instead of Keshi.

But the NFF boss, who spoke with The
Guardian on phone from London yesterday,
declared that the unveiling ceremony would
hold on Tuesday. “We are unveiling Keshi as
Super Eagles coach on Tuesday unfailingly.
Take me for my word. It must take place on
Tuesday,” Pinnick told The Guardian.
The NFF Secretary General, Dr. Mohammed
Sanusi, had told Nigerians categorically early
last week that the new Eagles coach would
emerge on Friday. But it never came to pass.
In fact, some journalists who thronged the
NFF office in Abuja on Friday in anticipation
of the unveiling ceremony, left angrily with a
feeling that Nigerians had been taken for a
ride by the NFF.

But Pinnick said that the NFF does not have
any hidden agenda concerning the unveiling
of Keshi as Super Eagles coach.
However, the NFF boss may not be on ground
for Keshi’s unveiling ceremony on Tuesday in
Abuja. He revealed yesterday that he would
meet with officials of a kit manufacturing
company in London on Thursday.
Stephen Keshi, 53, a former captain and coach
of the Super Eagles, is expected to sign a two-
year contract with the NFF. His first
assignment will be the qualifying campaign
for the 2017 AFCON in June against Chad in
Abuja.

However, some Nigerians have vehemently
kicked against the idea of bringing back
Keshi, after failing to qualify Nigeria for the
2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea.

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