Wahidi Akanni, a former Chairman of Lagos State Football Association, says the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been unfair to Gernot Rohr, the Super Eagles’ Head Coach.
Akanni spoke on Monday in an interview.
He said that the public disclosure of terms and conditions of a possible renewal of Rohr’s contract by the NFF was unnecessary.
NFF President Amaju Pinnick recently disclosed that Rohr would be handed a new contract to sign if he agreed to the terms.
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But Akanni, an ex-international, said making Rohr’s contract public as Pinnick did would only mean that the two parties had not been communicating effectively.
“I think, with the back and forth media correspondences between NFF and Rohr, it is obvious that both are not talking.”
He insisted that a contract between an employee and his employer should not be in the public for that matter.
“Changing the terms of an employee’s contract also should not be a problem if it’s acceptable by the employee.”
Hoping that the matter will be resolved amicably soon, Akanni said: “one must acknowledge that NFF has no right to make the contract public because this will bring in a lot of negative sentiments against the coach”.
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Anaedoonline.com reported that President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has said that head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, will only get a new deal if stringent clauses are included.
Speaking with SportingLife, Pinnick explained that these clauses are to help the national team, ahead of the qualifying series for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Rohr’s current deal will expire in June 2020.
“Sincerely, we want him to continue with his work and we have said that we are going to sit down with the coach in January with the possibility of offering him a new contract.
“The truth is that we were carried with the euphoria of World Cup qualification and honestly, what he had can be regarded as a ‘raw’ contract.
“But we are going to have some stringent measures for overall best interest of the Super Eagles and Nigerian football,” Pinnick.
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He added that some of the clauses would see Rohr take permanent residence either in Lagos or Abuja. The German will also be allowed to travel on vacation only three times in a year.
It was also understood that the coach would henceforth work in conjunction with the NFF’s technical committee.
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