The controversy surrounding the sack of former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi is far from over as new details revealed the mastermind behind his disengagement.
According to the online news portal, Naij.com, a very reliable top official of the Nigeria Football Federation who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed the main person behind the former Eagles captain’s sack.
It would be recalled that the NFF had been finding it difficult to sack Keshi from his post due to his godfather whom many believed was Ita Ekpenyong, the former Director General of the State Security Service, DSS.
Keshi was eventually ousted out of the Eagles job a day after the former DG of the SSS was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Naij.com further stated that the source alleged that the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai was the one that gave the go ahead to the NFF for Keshi's sack, assuring the football house that they have the full suppor of the Presidency.
The NFF had sacked former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi because of what they referred to as a “lack of commitment and trust”.
The NFF stated that Keshi applied for the then vacant head coach job in the Ivory Coast FA whilst still on engagement with the NFF, a move which was against the two years contract which Keshi signed with the NFF in April 2015.