On November 14, 2009 in Kenya, Nigeria booked a place for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, it was a miraculous ticket. It came from an almost /Impossible situation with the players and officials alike attributing the feat to the finger of God. After it though. Are contending issues that has become a national discourse.

For instance, several people still believe inspite the feat, we are yet to have a team and our having a good team is tied to our engaging or contracting a better coach.

Shuaibu Amodu has delivered the ticket, fulfilling the promise he made to Nigerians in delivering both the Nations and World Cup tickets. But several Nigerians are not confident of his technical prowess and feel the fair deal aside outright sack, should be getting a better foreign technical expert to head him. It is this resolve that has pitched the NFF, President Task Force against the mass Nigerian football fans.

Therefore, because the NFF have found themselves in a situation they would not want to be seen as unjust and bestial against the effort of Amodu, they have fixed a date for Wednesday this week to meet as a board to carefully and critically analyse the issue.

Wednesday shall be a day to decide the fate of Amodu who has equally called for some respect from Nigerians and authorities concerned. Upon the deliberation of Wednesday, there shall be another with the Presidential Task Force on the same matter by the NFF eggheads aimed at carrying the major stakeholders along in a resolve to take a decision based on national interest.

When tongues began to wag that NFF President, Sani Lulu had granted an interview claiming nothing will make him sack Amodu, I reached him on phone for clarification. His explaination was that he was misquoted as he only said it will be wrong to sack some one who has delivered the ticket Nigerians badly needed, no matter how it was done.

He reasoned that Amodu has never lost any match since coming on board when other countries, including big ones like Portugal and others had a fair share of tasting defeats. But having realised the position of Nigerians, there will be a need for the board of NFF to meet and tactically address the issue which at the end will be for the general interest of Nigerians. He said after the board meeting, the members will also meet with the Presidential Task Force members on the same purpose.

Reflecting on the recent craze in the press concerning the Amodu saga, I pondered on how the politics of football and indeed sports has gone awry lately. In the case of Lulu, he has always been a target of some forces, who are bent on seeing his exit. The South African World Cup ticket was seen as a plausible avenue to nail him and before the November 14 encounter, these forces had orchestrated a plan to be sold to higher authorities for the bringing on board of a caretaker committee to oversee Nigeria football upon non qualification and Lulu's removal.

With his vindication based on the 3-2 win in Kenya, the agenda failed. And while Nigerians were celebrating the ticket, those behind the caretaker committee plot wore long faces.

Still bent on seeing the back of Lulu, their attention turned to LOC U-17 board probe where the federal government had promised probe and punishment for those found wanting. But Lulu, there too, is clean since there is nothing on record to trace his name as one of the beneficiaries on contracts, not even that of tooth pick.

Now their final underground work is on this last one, Amodu Shuaibu. But that also, Lulu and his board have agreed to meet with the coach on his consent for the way forward. In the same vein, while Sani Lulu is carrying his cross with the press having a field day concerning the 2010/Amodu matter, Sports Minister, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, has become another major target.

What are Ndanusa's sins? His first sin is for daring to show interest in the Nigeria Olympic Presidency office. He must suffer for it. Even though he in eligible as he has portrayed in his credentials where he was initially wrongly put forward and disqualified, he has been labeled as someone is over ambitious.

As it is, it appears it is sacrilege to aspire for some offices where some persons have held sway for long. It is even more painfully seen as a taboo to campaign for change where it is business as usual. Dr. Amos Adamu, Barr. Hassan Gimba, and Sani Lulu have all tasked the bitter pill of the 'pull him down' syndrome and now Ndanusa is finding himself in the deep sea of sports politics, where the sharks are ever vicious.

They have vowed to stop Ndanusa because as a senior member of the NOC, he had innocently opened up to change the 'scheme of things' where it is believed the secretariat of the NOC is in the 'briefcase' of some people but he would want it moved to Abuja, the seat of power for transparency and accountability. But those who know that will truncate the advent of 'business as usual' have resolved to fight him to finish.

The impression and strategy the anti Ndanusa camps are creating in the media is that he will be too busy as a minister to attend to NOC matters, and that he has not performed as Nigeria Tennis Federation President. Objectively, non of these camps have told us why the incumbent, Habu Gumel who they claim is "less busy" even though was a director of facilities at the NSC, president COREN, President Nigeria Volleyball Federation, IOC committee member, has failed to give Nigeria a single medal in 8 years in the Olympics.

Indeed non of them have reasoned that as the volleyball federation president, Engr. Habu Gumel has also failed to take volleyball to the desired level in Nigeria. As president of the federation, in 2005, Nigeria hosted other African countries but failed to win the trophy.

Underneath the plan for the head of Ndanusa is a sinister plan to continuously generate bad publicity around his person and office so as to sell an idea to President Yar'Adua to remove him on grounds of being 'too controversial' and causing bad 'public relations' for his government.