Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh has tendered his resignation after reportedly receiving the backlog of salaries owed him by the Nigeria Football Federation.
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Oliseh’s resignation comes just a month before a crunch Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Egypt in the northern city of Kaduna with the return leg two days later in Cairo.
Some high profile players have retired since he took over as coach including goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama – Nigeria’s most-capped player – who quit after he was replaced as captain.
“What has Oliseh achieved as a coach that is the question we should ask ourselves as a nation, a lot of Nigerians questioned his appointment then”.
The former Juventus player also called out his former colleagues in the Super Eagles “Benchwarmers” who are still bench-warming.
“He complained that everything was being done for him to fail against Egypt so he could be made a scape goat”.
NFF general-secretary Mohammed Sanusi, in Zurich for Friday’s vote to elect a new president of the sport’s world governing body FIFA, confirmed the federation had received Oliseh’s resignation.
“He also spoke on the phone with the sports minister”.
A rented apartment in Abuja promised Oliseh and his two assistants after he was appointed in July 2015 was never provided.
Stephen Keshi “Managing the Nigerian national team is a very herculean task and those who have insulted their elders should be expecting insults in the course of time”.
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He won only 5 of his 14 games in charge of the Eagles’ and had been facing severe criticism for his team’s dismal performance at African Nations Championship in Rwanda and his YouTube outburst where he slammed his critics.
