Former Super Eagles player, Tijani Babangida, has revealed that it was Herve Renard’s agent, who told Sunday Oliseh that his client had been contacted by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
In an interview with Complete Sports after resigning from his role, Oliseh claimed that the NFF tried to hire the Frenchman behind his back.
“They had their motives and what I did was in the best interest of the country,” Oliseh said.
“While I was coach of the team they tried to hire Renard who turned them down citing three major reasons.”
His personal assistant, Babangida, has now explained how they knew.
“They were talking with Renard about him replacing Oliseh and it was his agent who told us,” he said.
“The agent wondered what is wrong with the NFF, but he assured him Renard won’t be coming to Nigeria.”
Babangida also claimed that he already knew Oliseh would walk away from the job.
“It was always going to end this way because he was disappointed, his contract was violated and there were many problems at the CHAN and he was not supported,” he added.
“He planned to go and watch an interesting striker (Fanendo) Adi in the United States of America, but they did not approve it, claiming there is no money.
“They did not reply his emails and they kept insisting he attend the technical committee meeting in Abuja even when he had yet to compile his list of players for the Egypt matches.
“It was like, If he did not show up, they will sack him again after they recommended for his sack at their first meeting.”
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