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| Shehu Dikko and Amaju Melvin Pinnick |
Football/Appointment
President of Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin
Pinnick on Friday congratulated NFF 2nd Vice President/LMC Chairman Shehu
Dikko, after the soft –spoken administrator and marketing and strategic
development expert was appointed a Member of the FIFA Football Stakeholders
Committee. FIFA ratified the appointment of Dikko at its Council meeting held
Friday, 27th October 2017 in Calcutta, India.
Dikko’s appointment made him the third Nigerian to be appointed
into a FIFA Committee this year, after Pinnick himself was enlisted into the
influential Organizing Committee for FIFA Competitions and former Lagos State
Chief Judge, Justice Ayotunde Philips was elected Member of the FIFA Ethics
Committee (Adjudicatory Council).
“It has been a glorious year for Nigerian Football. We have
qualified for the FIFA World Cup with remarkable ease, much more comfortably
than anyone could have imagined after the group phase draw. We qualified for
the CHAN. Now, we have people in very important positions in world football,
signifying global reckoning, and it is a thing of absolute joy.
“Shehu (Dikko) fully deserves his appointment. He has been doing
excellent job as Chairman of LMC and as 2nd Vice President and Chairman of the
NFF Marketing, Sponsorship and Television Advisory Committee, as well as the
NFF Strategy Committee. I believe he will fly our country’s flag very high in
that committee and his experience, deep knowledge and work ethic would be huge
value added to FIFA’s objectives in developing football across board,” Pinnick
told thenff.com.
Its modus operandi states that the FIFA Football Stakeholders
Committee “shall advise and assist FIFA on all matters relating to Football
(including women’s football, futsal and beach soccer), particularly the
structure of the game, as well as on all technical matters. The committee shall
also deal with relationship between clubs, players, leagues, member
associations, Confederations and FIFA, as well as issues relating to the
interest of Club Football worldwide, and analyse the basic aspects of football
training and technical development.”
The FIFA Football Stakeholders Committee is a merger of several
committees (among them Football Committee and Strategic Studies Committees), in
line with FIFA’s new organizational strategy that cut the list of committees
from 20 to 11. President of CONCACAF and FIFA Vice President, Victor Montagliani
is Chairman of the committee. The membership cuts across all major stakeholders
in football comprising Presidents of Member Associations, former players
(including former Brazilian World Cup –winning captain Cafu and Dutchman Robin
Van der Sar) and Chairmen of Leagues (including the Chairman of EPL and CEO of
the Bundesliga).
World football –ruling body FIFA now conducts independent and
very rigorous and thorough global integrity, background and eligibility checks
on all its potential appointees well before –hand, and Pinnick, Justice Philips
and Dikko deserve accolades for passing the tough tests conducted by
independent and renown global experts.
It can be recalled that seven (7) Nigerians have been appointed
into various committees of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), also
this year.
Pinnick, who was the arrowhead of the Change Team that took over
CAF in March this year after Issa Hayatou’s 29 years in office, is Member of
the CAF Executive Committee and the CAF Emergency Committee, and also President
of AFCON.
NFF 1st VP Seyi Akinwunmi is member of the Committee on Youth
Competitions; FIFA’s new boy Dikko is member of the Committee on Inter-Clubs
Competitions and Club Licensing System; Ibrahim Musa Gusau is member of
Organizing Committee for CHAN; Senator Obinna Ogba is in the Committee for
Futsal and Beach Soccer; Yusuf Ahmed ‘Fresh’ is member of the CAF Technical and
Development Committee; Dr. Peter Singabele is in the CAF Medical Committee and;
Chisom Mbonu is member of the Organizing Committee for Women’s Football.
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