NFF damns Peterside Idah over Japanese Dr's donation to Dream Team

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has tongue lashed former national team goalkeeper, Peterside Idah over a Twitter post in which he said that officials of the federation wanted to hijack the $3900 cash donation given to Dream Team VI at the Rio 2016 Olympics by Japanese plastic surgeon, Katsuya Takasu.

Speaking through its president, Dr Amaju Pinnick, the NFF described Idah's tweet as "an atrocious false alarm."

“His message was a lie, an atrocious false alarm before an important match. I had exchanged correspondence with the Minister on the issue of the donation and we agreed that there was need for caution. The Minister said to me that he read the donation in the papers and had expressed serious concern. I also received a mail from the NFF Integrity Officer who expressed very serious concern with this kind of donation.

“I got in touch with the Ambassador of Nigeria to Brazil and the Minister to say that whatever had to be done should be done after the Bronze Medal Match, to avoid any distractions. The NFF may be having financial challenges, but I assure you nobody in the Federation is interested in that money.

“If we get the Government’s go-ahead to collect the money, no official of the NFF will be involved even in the collection. The money will be received directly by the team,” he said.