Former FIFA Technical Instructor, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to hasten up the process of appointing a coach for the senior national team.
The Super Eagles have been without a permanent handler, since Stephen Keshi’s contract ended after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
“I believe everybody would agree with me that it shouldn’t have delayed for this long; we have people in authority who ought to have done the right thing,” Onigbinde told Goal.
“Keshi’s contract expired in June last year after the FIFA World Cup, and from then till now is about nine months. Well, I’m not surprised this is happening because we are all in Nigeria.
“Definitely, this is not good for Nigerian football, but what can you and I do?
“One is not even sure of what is happening because we do not know which party to believe,” he continued.
“At a time, Keshi said nobody was talking to him and at another time, the NFF said they have recommended him for another contract. I really don’t know who to believe.
“I think the best anyone can do in the interest of Nigerian football is for the NFF to put their house in order and let Nigeria have a clear picture of what is happening.”
Onigbinde, who took the Eagles to the 2002 World Cup, also admitted that the country might not be successful in 2015, because of the absence of developmental programmes.
He said: “People say to [not] prepare is to prepare to fail and for about half a century now, I have been talking about how to develop Nigerian football and up till now, nothing is coming on. If you are not developing, how can you measure the level of development?
“We have had series of competitions and I have always hammered that competition is not development. We use competition to assess the level of development. And if you are not developing, what then are you assessing with competitions?
“I am a patriotic Nigerian but sincerely, I cannot see anything on ground now that gives me hope on improvement in Nigerian football because I am yet to be aware of any developmental programme”.
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