‘Those asking Keshi to resign don’t know what they are saying’

Amos Adamu, a former director-general of the National Sports Commission (NSC), has said that Nigerians asking Stephen Keshi to step down as Super Eagles coach “don’t know what they are saying”.  

The Super Eagles failed to qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) billed for Equatorial Guinea and some stakeholders of the game advised Keshi to honourably quit his job. But Adamu does not see why the Big Boss should be asked to resign.

“For me those asking Keshi to resign don’t know what they are saying,” he told NAN.

“Why should Stephen Keshi resign why, has he not won the major championship for Africa, for Nigeria, has he not? If we don’t qualify, we don’t even look at the situation which made them not to qualify, people are always trying to sack people. Sack! Sack! Sack! Sack!

“As for me, I think Keshi is a coach that they should rely on. All those who are shouting if they put them there, they cannot do anything. For me, Keshi should remain, every hand should be on deck, every coach has to improve himself, we hope that this year will bring us better things.”

The former FIFA executive member gave Nigeria football a pass mark while seeing no qualms in the team’s woeful AFCON qualifying campaign.

“But at any rate, Nigerian football is trying; nobody can say Nigerian football is not trying, yes we didn’t qualify for Cup of Nations, we don’t have to qualify for everything.”