Determined to ensure that Nigeria escape the impending FIFA ban, the Presidency Wednesday waded into the crisis rocking Nigeria Football Federation, Prompt News can report authoritatively.
FIFA in its latest letter addressed to NFF President Amaju Pinnick and Secretary General Musa Amadu, threatened to impose a lengthy ban on Nigeria should the suit in a Jos Federal High Court is not withdrawn latest by midday on Friday.
Should the hammer fall on the NFF, FIFA will not revisit Nigeria’s case until May 2015 during its congress.
Bearing in mind the implications of a FIFA ban, stakeholders have been calling on the two factions- Amaju Pinnick-led faction and Chris Giwa-led faction to consider the larger interest of the country.
Consequently, Sports Minister, Tammy Danagogo, who is now hobnobbing with Amaju Pinnick, after romancing Chris Giwa, ‘ordered’ the two men to meet and come up with solution to avoid FIFA ban.
But, the meeting between the duo was deadlocked, prompting the Presidency to step in.
On Wednesday, Giwa and Pinnick were summoned to the Presidential Villa, with a view to finding the way forward.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Jones Oladehinde Arogbofa, met with the duo with the Sports Minister in attendance.
The meeting ended at about 4.10 pm when our correspondent sighted Sports Minister, Giwa and Pinnick, emerging from the Chief of Staff’s office.
Details of the meeting could not be ascertained as at the time of filling this report.
However, Prompt News gathered that government has already taken a decision that will be unfolded in the event that none of them is ready to make sacrifice in the overall interest of Nigerian football.
