Former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh, has resigned as coach of the senior national football team after collecting his backlog of salaries from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
He cited “contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players, assistant coaches and myself,” as reasons for his decision.
In a resignation letter sent to the NFF on Thursday, Oliseh thanked the football body for the opportunity to serve the country in the capacity he did.
Dr Mohammed Sanusi, General Secretary of the NFF, confirmed to supersport.com that the former Ajax Amsterdam midfielder has indeed resigned from his post as the coach of the Super Eagles.
“Yes, we have received a letter from him and I can tell you he has resigned as coach of the national team (Super Eagles),”he said.
“I can tell you the content of the letter yet because we haven’t met to deliberate on it. We are in Zurich for the Fifa congress but as soon as we are through with the meeting, you will be in the know,” Sanusi added.
Oliseh, who took over the Super Eagles job in July 2015, has had a topsy-turvy relationship with the NFF and also had a run-in with a few players.
His tenure as coach was characterised by incessant disagreements with the football ruling house that culminated in an eight minute rant on social media chiding agents, journalists and his assistants whom he claimed where working against him after Nigeria’s ouster at the 2016 CHAN tournament in Rwanda.