President of the Nigerian football federation has said that the need to have Nigerian football completely free of government funding, so that government can focus on other areas of development and growth, informed his move to invite both Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola to the FIFA Best Awards held in London last night.
Both Nigerian billionaires were among dignitaries that graced the award night. Speaking with sports247.ng, Pinnick said, “I m happy the two captains of industry in Nigeria accepted my invitation.
They left the venue very impressed with the quality of people running football in the world and how the leadership of FIFA appreciates Nigeria. This is part of what we are doing as a soccer federation to get the private sector involved in the game back home.
As I said before the Katsina election, our vision is to see how football can become self sustaining in Nigeria so that government’s role would be that of protection and not bringing out tax payers money that can be channeled into other critical areas.”
