WHEN WILL HOSNI LEAVE THE GLASS HOUSE?

Our own Hosni and the call for change

Hosni is a new word in the lexicon to mean ‘when you tenure to leave office is up and you refuse to plan to retire until you are forced out’. Someone mistakenly squealed at the Old Parade Ground asking when our own Hosni will leave the Glass House. The person actually asked pointedly, “when is your friend the headmaster leaving the Glass House?”

That was when it struck me that the buffs therein may not know, since they do not keep records that the tenure of the Headmaster in the Glass House in up. I also gathered that Mr. Musa Amodu (someone also lied to me that he is a lawyer, is it true?) had been lobbying seriously to retain the job. Ask, do we need him? I will answer the question.

He is supposed to have proceeded on terminal leave since January 2011. That means he has no plans to leave until he is forced out. Is he sitting tight? Are the NFF people making plans to seek and replace him with a most needed quality candidate?

IT’S A SOUTH WEST AFFAIR:

Let me also add, given the current headship of the board, Aminu Maigari is from Bauchi (North East), his deputy, Mike Umeh is South East. By the zoning style in the football house, the seat should go to a candidate from the South West. So Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Ekiti brace up.

I also heard that Mr Maigari had planned to compensate his friend, Charles Ojugbana with the position. He can like Dili Onyedinma, who is from the South East but suddenly became a North Central by modulating this fact as published by the same agency less than a week interval. Ojugbana had lived all his life in Lagos and so can claim South West. Ojugbana deserves the seat and is eminently qualified for it because he stood and sat by Maigari during the days leading to his “selection” (you may elect to remove the “s” to get what I should mean).

I also do know that the group that produced Maigari promised Bukola Olapade of Ogun State to step down for Maigari, which he did. He is also very qualified and eminently sound to make a new beginning.

PATRICK OKPOMO:

Can a quick search be done and a candidate whose name should bring absolute confidence, an experienced football administrator, a deep knowledged person be gotten. We honestly do not want a new village headmaster like my friend the barrister. We want someone whose experience will make up for the very obvious inadequacies in the current board.

The Secretary General must be in the clime and mould of Patrick Okpomo. As the Chief Executive of the NFA his experience should initiate spontaneous applause, whose wealth and experience in the game will guide the wavering board to its core duties, relocate football development, bring new structures to the secretariat and professionalise the system of administration.

We don’t want a secretary general who will get missing and leave the board, not an Executive board, to go wry and astray delving into regions where their knowledge is limited and should not be professional.

MY FEARS AGAIN:

Can we get it right again? Here we have another opportunity presenting itself to us again. Where are the men of God to start praying for God to guide our football leaders aright. Professor Adedoja, can you do the superintending of this move well? Two good days of brainstorming will give us result. This is a matter of National Interest. It has never been left in the hands of the NFA anytime past to decide.

Like Lagos football fans, do we cheer you or boo you after this task must have been concluded. This week is and should be the deadline. By now, the new Secretary General should have been in place. Don’t let the Hosni Mubarak syndrome catch up with you!