Pinnick: We will take the right decision on Keshi

Amaju Pinnick, president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), says the delay in taking a decision on Super Eagles out-of- contract coach Stephen Keshi is down to the need to “take a right decision that is beneficial to all”.

Keshi signed a three-year contract with the federation when he was offered the job in 2011 and it’s yet to be renewed since July 2014 when it expired. But Pinnick is unperturbed with the situation.

“The chairman technical committee is on with coach Stephen Keshi. And he is going to recommend to the board the decision of his committee. Like I keep saying, contracts are not signed over night,” Pinnick said.

“We make an offer, Keshi says he doesn’t like it; it goes back to us, we insert the right clauses, and it goes to the legal department. We just want to ensure that we do a thorough job.

“In Nigeria, we have a very peculiar environment and that is why it’s taking this long. We don’t want to make mistakes but to take a right decision that is beneficial to all.”

The executive committee of the NFF meets on Thursday in Lagos and the future of Keshi is expected to be one of the issues to be discussed.