World Cup: NFF Reacts Over FIFA Sanction On Super Eagles

The Nigeria Football Federation has responded with respect to the sanction levied against the Nigeria national team for fielding Abdullahi Shehu when he ought to observe one-match suspension.

President of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, who frowned at the negligence on the part of the officials attached to the national team, vowed to punish any officer found culpable of causing the country such an embarrassment.

However, the  CAF executive member apologised over the bad occurrence and said
“we accept the decision of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee to fine the NFF and award the match to Algeria”.

Spokesman for the federation, Ademola Olajire, confirmed that Pinnick

“has directed that an internal inquiry be instituted immediately and persons found culpable be dealt with”.

“This is a grave error and somebody must be punished,” Olajire quoted the NFF boss as saying in a statement on Tuesday.

 “We apologise to Nigerians for this and assure that this will not in any way derail or even distract us in our well-laid plan to ensure that the Super Eagles have a great outing in Russia.

“At the same time, I want to assure that persons responsible for this slip-up would not be given just a slap on the wrist. We are actually looking at a re-organisation of the technical department.”