Mumini Alao: Why Nigerians should support Pinnick’s bid for FIFA World Council seat [Listen to Podcast]

Mumini Alao: Why Nigerians should support Pinnick’s bid for FIFA World Council seat [Listen to Podcast]

Nigeria Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick is angling for a seat on the FIFA World Council and, despite the cacophony of protest voices against him, ace journalist and Group Managing Director of Complete Communications Ltd, Mumini Alao insists every Nigerian should get behind him.

Good evening.

As part of my commitment to keep pushing Nigerian and African football forwards and upwards, I would like to announce that I have now been cleared by the FIFA Review Committee to seek a position on the FIFA Council at the forthcoming elections scheduled…
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— Amaju Melvin Pinnick (@PinnickAmaju) January 26, 2021

…for the 43rd Ordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football; CAF, coming up in Rabat, Morocco on the 12th of March, later this year.

The FIFA Review Committee has extremely stringent integrity, eligibility and security checks, and it is the first…
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— Amaju Melvin Pinnick (@PinnickAmaju) January 26, 2021

Since 2014, when I first got into the office of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, I have always maintained that Nigeria and Africa deserves to be more visible in the administration of World Football and this is still part of that quest.
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— Amaju Melvin Pinnick (@PinnickAmaju) January 26, 2021

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Speaking on the latest episode of Sports Planet Podcast with co-anchor Kayode Ogundare, Alao reckons that the fact that Pinnick is a Nigerian should fire the country’s nationalism fervour since it is inconceivable to support another candidate as long as a Nigerian is running.

Click here to listen to the full episode…