NFF Boss Impeached, As FIFA Extends Deadline 
Published on July 4, 2010 by pmnews · 6 CommentsReports reaching P.M.Sports from Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, say President of the country’s Football Federation, Sani Lulu Abdullahi has been impeached along with first Vice President Amanze Uchegbulam and Technical Committee Chairman Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi.
Nine of the 13 members of the NFF Executive Committee, according feelers from the FCT, met and voted to impeach the leadership of the soccer house, sacked last week by President Goodluck Jonathan.
It was gathered that Aminu Maigari will now take over as interim President with Obinna Ogba as the new interim first vice President.
The decisions must be ratified by the full NFF Congress, but the impeachment move may have been a last minute effort to rescue Nigeria from an impending ban from the Federation of International Football Associations, FIFA. Lulu, Uchegbulam, Ogunjobi and NFF General Secretary Bolaji Ojo Oba were not part of the meeting. In another development, FIFA has extended the deadline given to Nigerian government to reverse her decision to withdraw the national team from international football till tomorrow. It would be recalled that FIFA, on Friday gave Nigeria just 48 hours to lift her self-imposed ban or get expelled from its programmes. The Executive Committee of NFF is expected to brief FIFA on its impeachment exercise before close of work tomorrow. The Emergency Committee of FIFA meets tomorrow to decide on the latest development in Nigeria. If Nigeria is eventually banned, FIFA will invite an alternative team to replace the Falconets at the FIFA U-20 Women
Championships beginning next week, 13 July in Germany.
From Tunde Oyedele, Johannesburg
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Good riddance to bad rubbish, these are the people holding Nigerian Football to ransom, Uchebulam is an arrogant cultist since his Leventis days at portharcourt, nothing good ever comes from him.
I really think that Dr.Good luck has really done very well by withdrawing Nigeria from participating in any international event.
Let look at it like this,what if the Government has kept quiet,the Nigerian populace will be blaming Mr.President for not doing enough,now that he has done what he suppose to do some greedy politician are crying fowl,but we will not succumb to them at all,FIFA is fighting to see they always make their own gain,so whether we like it or not ,or whether FIFA like it or not,the ban remains like that for Nigeria interest.
I still maintain that the ban should be reversed hoohaa!
this is just the frist step for nig football.three is not enough all have to step aside and another body will takeover,thanks goodluck bcos he did right thing and for fifa they are intrested to know if nig is doing well or not,they need money.largeback should mind his job,forget those selfish people called themselves nff.
To hell with fifa and its threat of ban,who cares?does fifa feed us or add value to our standard of living?jonathan pls divert the football allocation to power sector.
Mr president must not ban Nigeria in the area of soccer. Our teams are good.