blames on Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh after the
ouster of the Nigerian team from the African Nations
Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.
The former Nigeria coach told Goal that the Nigeria Football
Federation who employed the inexperienced former captain
should share in the blame.
Speaking to Goal, the NFF got it all wrong when the coach
was employed because there are certain qualities and
experience a coach should possess before he can be
saddled with the responsibility of coaching a national team
like the Super Eagles.
“It would be unfair to heap all the blame of Nigeria’s
elimination from the African Nations Championship on the
chief coach Sunday Oliseh alone,” Onigbinde told Goal.
“In as much as he is responsible for the good and the bad
results of the team as a coach, there are some people that
ought to have provided him the needed back up that I think
may have failed to do so.
“There are some salient questions we need to ask here. Did
the NFF do their homework well by hiring Sunday Oliseh who
had never handled any national team before?
“After hiring him, did the same NFF provide him with the
needed back up like a well-functioning and strong technical
department that will guide him and point out any lapses of
the team and proffer solutions to the team’s technical
problems?
“The answers to all these questions I know you guys know.
“Until we learn to do things right and in the proper way it
should be we won’t get the needed results we are craving
for,” Onigbinde advised.
The issue of Oliseh’s unpaid salary and allowances and the
players’ too, Onigbinde said that in as much as a worker is
entitled to his payment but that is not a strong excuse to
have failed to go beyond a group stage in a tournament that
Nigeria with the caliber of players the country possesses
should have gone far in the competition.
“The same thing happened when I took the Eagles to Korea/
Japan 2002 World Cup when I was promised N2 million to
prepare and take the team to the World Cup then. The NFF
under Taiwo Ogunjobi as the Secretary General then could
not pay the money despite participating at the finals then.
“When I threatened not to lead the team to play the final
group match they now brought a bank cheque in naira
equivalent promising that when I get back to Nigeria after
the tournament it would be paid. The funny thing is that
when I got back and went to the bank, the cheque bounced.
That is another story for another day. So all of us has
stories to tell.”
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