Oliseh yet to receive salaries, withdraws lawsuit against NFF

Former Nigeria coach, Sunday Oliseh has revealed that he is yet to be paid his outstanding salaries as claimed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Oliseh announced on YouTube on Tuesday that he also decided to withdrawn a law suit against the NFF in the interest of the country.

“I realized that the federation is bent on tarnishing my credibility and that was why my lawyers came out to prove especially that I was not paid as the federation claimed. I attached here the February bank details of Zenith Bank and you can clearly see that no money was paid in in February by the NFF.

“However, I have instructed my lawyers to withdraw the law suit against the NFF after appeals from well-meaning Nigerians because it is useless joining issues with people who are bent on deceiving Nigerians and distract them from reality.
“Any coach taking after me will find it difficult if he puts Nigeria first because those he will work with won’t be on the same page with him and there will be problem.”

The Super Eagles captain indicted the NFF for not being patriotic.

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“Certain vested interest in the NFF put their own interests first before that of Nigeria. My position of putting Nigeria first was a hindrance to certain vested interests in the NFF.

“If you put Nigeria first, you will always have problems with the NFF.

“This also explains why the benefits of players and wages and coaches are always placed secondary, while other things like team building trips (for FA chairmen) will always be catered to first.”

Oliseh also accused the technical committee of always wanting to impose players on him.

“I asked technical committee for information to help us against Egypt since July 2015, but I got no such information,” he
said.

“Instead what they found more important to them was who will play for Nigeria, who is invited, who will play and I refused because they are not coaches.”

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