Every supporter connected to the super Eagles has wondered what kind of insubordination Sylvanus Okpala was meant to have committed to have been sacked by the NFF.Despite consistent pleas from Keshi that he is a very important aspect of his team,they have refused to reinstate him.Well, wonder no more.Here's the reason Okpala was sacked,it is because the NFF wants to punish him for reporting them to Patrick Ekeji.
Okpala was laid off on the excuse that the Nigeria Football Federation had lean resources and could
not accommodate too many assistants.
But when they wanted to impose foreign assistants on Keshi, the former skipper of the Eagles said that the only assistant he wanted remained Okpala.It turned out to be a ploy to get him out of the way because he had reported to then Director General of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Patrick Ekeji bonuses were slashed for no just reason. Officials of the NFF did not take kindly to that and punished him for ‘’reporting’’ them to Ekeji.
At the Tom Tom roundtable yesterday, Keshi said that the NFF were still sitting on his request of recalling Okpalla for the World Cup. ‘’Up till now, there is no change. It is still the same thing. It might change tomorrow. We are in Nigeria’’, he said