President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has tendered an apology to Nigerians explaining how the “error” which led to the sanctioning by the world football body, FIFA.
Mr Pinick using his official Twitter handle @PinnickAnaju on Wednesday admitted the mistake by the NFF leading to the use of Shehu Abdullahi taking responsibility for the error as head of NFF.
He explained that the official match documents of NFF didn’t show that Shehu Abdullahi was on a yellow card ND Nigeria went on the match not knowing about FIFA’s notice
“Good morning. I’ll start by tendering my wholehearted apology to Nigeria and Nigerians for the Shehu Abdullahi error. It is unforgivable and could have undone months of hard work. As head of the Federation, I take responsibility for this. It happened on my watch.
“While accepting the Federation’s fault here, let me quickly explain how this went by unnoticed.
Pinnick Apologises To Nigerians, Explains How ‘NFF Error’ Occurred
