Chief Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi who was asked to step for aside Amodu Shuaibu has been re-appointed.
Keshi’s expired contract as coach of the African champions had not been renewed and any hope of renewing it had been dashed earlier this month, when new NFF President, Amaju Pinnik ordered that Shuaibu should take over for the next two AFCON qualifiers.
But on Friday, head of the federation’s technical committee, Felix Anyansi-Agwu, said his body had “decided to accept” a proposal re-instating Keshi as Super Eagles coach for Nigeria’s next Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Congo and South Africa in November.
Though not indicated by Anyansi-Agwu, the reinstatement is most likely as a result of Shuaibu’s entreaty to the NFF in a letter dated 27th October. In the letter, he had told NFF that the time given him to take over the team was too short to assemble a new team or put the one on ground in a shape to his taste. He had thus entreated NFF to reinstate Keshi.
