Who is the next victim of NFF's fighting spirit?

This is a guest report from Pat Omorodion

NFF give us this kind of smiles not fighting all

Hi all, a couple of weeks ago, I wrote via this medium, advising Emeka Inyama not to bite the same people that joined him in crying for his mandate that was almost stolen by the same men at the NFF he was now defending. I felt it was too early for him to start derailing. But again, yesterday I saw something from him, I still doubt he made those statements, calling Chief Segun Odegbami names.

I feel strongly that those words were crafted by Demola Olajire, I know how he writes. He has written same about Onigbinde, Amiesimaka and even my own boss in the office, Ikeddy Isiguzo who at one time or the other, voiced their opinion on football administration. So it is very sad if Inyama could allow himself to be used by the NFF to abuse Odegbami.

My first question to Inyama or Olajire is, has it become a crime to criticise the NFF, a body run by the tax payers money? Second question, has both men achieved what Odegbami hasn't achieved, professionally or academically? Patriotically, who between them has served Nigeria more and better? I am ashamed that the NFF is citing Laloko's Pepsi Academy to judge Odegbami's, why not talk about the one they claimed they floated, ironically to rubbish or frustrate Laloko who dumped their technical department job because of their inept administrative machinery which ran contrary to his beliefs.

Is Inyama or Olajire aware that the Odegbami academy they talked about is also a secondary school, where sports and education are supposed to go hand in hand and not their warped idea of an academy where fathers and grandfathers are paraded as little boys, to continue to perpetrate their evil cheating agenda? They should take a trip to Wasimi to see if the school has ceased to exist. They talk as if the NFF is their personal property which no one else can aspire to belong to.

What makes Inyama more qualified to be a member of the NFF than Odegbami? They, yes, Inyama and Olajire, claim Odegbami could not run an academy and wants to run the NFF. How successful are the businesses Inyama was part of, from Sports Link to so many others, including his television programmes which he borrowed tapes from Odegbami's Worldwide sports to run?

For Olajire, how successful was the sports newspaper he ran for his godfather, Amos Adamu in Ikeja in the 1990s. I am afraid the venture never lived beyond a year. They said Odegbami should tell them who he spent money on during the NFF election, why must he do that? Or is Inyama saying he too never spent a kobo on his own election. It couldn't have been because those leeches who make up the so-called electorate couldn't have voted for him because they are mostly cash and carry electorates.

Why would Odegbami not 'chicken out' from the NFF election as they claim, when there was a grand design to install a puppet to please the czar of our football and their godfather whose arse they can lick to get whatever they want. Odegbami, like Ibrahim Galadima, whom they betrayed and pushed out, can never be pushed around and will not do their bidding, so they always gang up to frustrate him each time he offers himself to serve.

I will advise Inyama not to burn his fingers too early as a member of the NFF. He should leave Olajire to do his herculean job of trying to polish the image of the worst NFF in Nigeria's history. Or is he trying to take over from Chris Green who is the unofficial spokesman of the NFF? What has Maigari they installed against Odegbami done with our football since he assumed office? What programme to lift our football has he initiated?

Instead he is busy recycling the same people who ran football aground, making them match commissioners and co-ordinators. It is a shame that Nigeria keeps shutting out her best hands in all endeavours, sports and football are just two of the many.

Any wonder why the country is constantly on reverse gear? This country and her football belongs to us all and not to those who schemed their way into the NFF, so we are free to criticise the NFF. The money used in running that place does not belong to anyone of those occupying there now but it is our common wealth. They have not finished fighting Jide Fashikun, they now want to start another one with Odegbami. Who is next now?