WORLD CUP VOTE CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS: IN DEFENCE OF ADAMU

I listened to the footage. I can confirm it is Dr Amos Adamu’s voice no doubt. Candidly, like I did analysed some weeks these people love Nigerian football. Read through the script, what was the intention behind collecting the alleged bribe? Was it not to develop four artificial pitches in Nigeria?

Ask again, was his collecting the cash and not cheque to cover up the paths and help Maigari’s return after the so-called “Out of court settlement” not a good plan? Was it not within FIFA’s mantra of “FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME?

Did they find the truth?

Though, a lot has been said, written and investigated about him in the last 20 years and his name has been mentioned in almost every financial scandal in Nigerian football and sports. That of COJA alone is running into an excess of N40billion. Which investigation has nailed him?

All the ‘babalawos’ and malams in Zuru and Ogbomosho should start asking God who had covered the past tribulations from enemies to cover this and bring him out clean as usual. All his media friends in Nigeria (need I mention their names?) should be bold enough to stand by him in this hour of need.

Dr. Amos Adamu is actually a pseudonym. The investigating journalists may have been speaking to Babatunde Oyekale Aremu and not the one that is a FIFA man.

NOT A NEW PHENOMENON:

Dr Adamu at a FIFA event

Consider the type of money for which one Dr Amos Adamu is being nailed and alleged to have demanded and the development grants collected by State FA chairmen in Nigeria to vote in a pre-determined direction, any similarity?

For the first time, the NFA under the wise management of Alhaji Sani Abdullahi Lulu paid “development grants”  to all state FAs and to top it all they were all taken to South Africa and allegedly made to collect “development levies” of  five million Naira each (about $33,000) all to make them loyal to the ruling class of Nigerian football. They though denied the last N5m on the eve of the election in a very sparse communiqué.

In all do you agree with me that FIFA is not only corrupt, dirty but most likely will qualify as the WORLD’S MOST CORRUPT PUBLIC INSTITUTION? Now, don’t believe me. Do a quick tour and visit http://transparencyinsport.org/

ADAMU’S FALL FORESEEN:

In the morning of 8^th October 2010 as I put on my phone, the first text message I got was from an avuncular friend of mine. It was written: “Jide, please pray. I saw Dr Adamu fall into dust and never rose up again. Though, we’ve been praying for enemies of Nigerian sports to be dealt with, but I pray it is not the ultimate.” This friend, we call him Elder. He is such a prayerful person. Twice, he had dreams like this he confided in me and they came to pass. As soon as I got home, earlier than usual at 9:05pm on the 16^th October and a call from New York and seconds later, another from London giving me the gists I remembered, “it was foreseen.”