The Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Coach Shuaibu Amodu, has stated that the Executive Committee of the football federation should sack out of contract Super Eagles head coach, Stephen Keshi.
Amodu who made the appeal in a chat with journalists in Abuja yesterday argued that the AFCON failure was more than enough to cost Keshi his job, stressing that it is regrettable that the coach could not defend the AFCON trophy he won in 2013 in South Africa.
Amodu says he believes any other coach that fails to qualify his country for a major tournament mustn’t remain.
“As a coach you are as good as your last game. If as at when they asked me to take over from him and I reckoned that it would affect my reputation if I failed, I expect any professional coach to assume the same position now, which is referring to Keshi.
“So he alone will decide whether he has a reputation or not. If he has a reputation, he should walk out of the job but if he doesn’t, he should stay like a begger,” Amodu said.
The former BCC Lions of Gboko coach also referred to Samson Siasia, who failed to qualify Nigeria for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations and was sacked, and says that precedent must be followed with Keshi also.
“We all know that Keshi has failed,” Amodu continued. “To keep him is a bad precedent because when Siasia failed, we told the whole country that he failed and he should go, and not even Goodluck Jonathan could save him. And so if we want to live within those standards, we know what to do and this is my personal opinion.”
