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The bribery scandal
involving Nigerian born FIFA Executive Committee member, Amos Adamu has
been generating a lot of comments from football experts across the
world. But in Nigeria, the opposite is the case.

Most people NEXT
contacted over the scandal, either declined to comment about it, and
those who did spoke on condition of anonymity.

The scandal gained
global prominence after British newspaper, The Sunday Times, filmed
Adamu agreeing to accept $800 000 in return for his vote in the 2018
Fifa World Cup bid.

A former Nigerian
international described the scenario as an “embarrassment to the
country”, but hoped that Adamu will get off the hook.

Even the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) were not ready to dabble into the issue, until more facts emerge.

“We just have to
wait for the outcome of this investigation before we can issue a
statement on the matter,” said Musa Amadu, the acting secretary general
of the NFF.

The wait may be
till Wednesday when Adamu is expected to face an ethics panel at the
Zurich headquarters of the football governing body.

Adamu in Zurich

Adamu was at FIFA’s
headquarters on Monday to meet with the body’s president Sepp Blatter,
who has promised an “in-depth investigation” into allegations against
Adamu, and another FIFA official, Reynald Temarii.

Two other Africans
who were fingered in the British newspaper investigations are also
expected to face the ethics committee on Wednesday.

They are FIFA
Referees’ committee member Amadou Diakite from Mali who said the
undercover reporters should offer about $1 million, and Slim Aloulou,
the Tunisian chairman of FIFA’s disputes resolution committee, who said
they should not pay “peanuts,” suggesting bribing members 1 million
pounds each.

Adamu is alleged to have said the money will be used to build artificial pitches in Nigeria.

The video released
by the Sunday Times appeared to show Adamu asking for the sum for four
artificial football pitches in Nigeria, to be paid to him personally.

Asked if the payment would influence his vote, Adamu is heard
saying, “Obviously, it will have an effect. Of course it will. Because
certainly if you are to invest in that, that means you also want the
vote.”