Stop the experiments, Mustapha warns Oliseh

Former NFF electoral committee chairman Abdulhakeem Mustapha has warned Coach Sunday Oliseh to stop testing out players and rather play the country's finest if the Super Eagles are to qualify for AFCON 2017.

Former NFF electoral committee chairman
Abdulhakeem Mustapha has warned coach Sunday
Oliseh to stop testing out players and rather play the
country's finest if the Super Eagles are to qualify for
AFCON 2017.

Mustapha, who midwifed the election that brought
former NFF president Aminu Maigari to office, also
told AfricanFootball.com that Nigeria has no business
playing a draw with a country like Tanzania.

The lawyer who is a close confidant of Kaduna State
Governor Nasir El-Rufai who has the ears of
President Mohamadu Buhari, noted: "Comparing
ourselves with Tanzania in Football is a mis-match.

Tanzania is not a footballing nation. To show we are a
serious footballing nation we should do what other
big Africa footballing nations are doing which is to
win our matches home and away.

"Every Nigerian feels we should beat Tanzania home
and away anytime and we didn't do that. And this is
an indication that all is not well with our football. This
is the time for us to walk the talk.

Nigeria played out a disappointing goalless draw
away to Tanzania on a weekend when Africa
powerhouses, Ghana, Cameroon, Zambia, Morocco
and Egypt all won away from home.

Mustapha said must their best during the AFCON
qualifiers.

He said: "Oliseh has a big task ahead of him. Anything
short of delivery results is not good enough because
I heard the NFF has given him everything.

"These are qualifiers not training matches. And I
don't think we should be testing players with
qualifiers. We are 170 million Nigerians we should
just go for the best players.

"For the fact that a player didn't response to a
telephone call is not enough to leave him out if he is
one of our best legs. We need the best 11 players we
can boast of in the world if we must go pass Egypt."


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