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Nigeria’s Sport
Minister, Ibrahim Isa Bio, has sounded a note of warning to Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) officials to focus on seeing the Super Eagles
soar in South Africa and not using the World Cup for re-election
campaigns.

In a letter to the
Federation, Bio said, “Our focus is to ensure that our darling team,
Super Eagles do well in South Africa and not to be concentrating on
election issues.

“The paramount
objective of the federation should be to ensure that Eagles perform
well in South Africa, while election matter should not come up during
the campaign for now,” he said.

The tenure of the
current NFF board led by Sani Lulu ends after the World Cup and Lulu
has already indicated his willingness to remain at the helm of affairs
in Nigeria football administration. The election into the board will
hold in August.

The incumbent board
has already been accused of taking all chairmen of state federations to
South Africa in order to secure their votes when they return. This move
have been criticised by aspirants to the NFF board and has informed
calls that the government should help monitor the election in order to
ensure transparency

Since assuming office in April, Bio has twice intervened in the affairs of NFF yielding positive results both times.

It would be recalled that is was the minister’s intervention that
ensured the substandard hotel initially booked for the Eagles in South
Africa was changed before the Mundial. He was also instrumental in the
provision of airlines to the team after the earlier arrangement made by
the federation failed.