Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju
Pinnick, cannot be replaced as the country’s candidate
for the forthcoming CAF executive committee elections
as the deadline for submission of candidate has
passed.
The deadline given by the Confederation of African
Football (CAF) was December 15, 2016.
Pinnick went ahead to submit his nomination for the
elections, without the endorsement of the NFF
executive committee.
The former Delta FA chief also did not get any approval
from government, as other candidates in the past like
Aminu Maigari and Ibrahim Galadima had done.
This has left Sports Minister Solomon Dalung fuming
and he announced that the government would set up a
committee to recommend “a suitable candidate” for the
polls, which will hold March 16 in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
