Sunday
Oliseh has quit as Nigeria’s football coach after claiming violations of his
contract and receiving too little help from the national federation for next
month’s crucial 2017 Africa Cup of Nations clash with Egypt.
Nigeria
host seven-time African champions and group leaders Egypt on March 25 in Kaduna
before a return fixture days later, with only the overall group winners
guaranteed automatic qualification to the 2017 Nations Cup in Gabon.
“Oliseh has resigned as Super Eagles coach
after he did not enjoy the right support from the Nigeria Football Federation
(NFF),” a top official said on Friday.
“He also complained of several breaches to his
contract with the NFF,” he said. Oliseh has complained he is owed four months’
salary and has not received accommodation in the capital of Abuja that he had
been promised.
It is also understood that he was unhappy over
the dismissal of his personal assistant, former international Tijjani
Babangida, and rumours that the NFF approached former Cote d’Ivoire coach Herve
Renard, who has since been appointed coach of Morocco.
Former
Nigeria skipper Oliseh was appointed as coach in July 2015, replacing sacked
Stephen Keshi. However, the relationship between him and the NFF has soured
since Nigeria failed to go past the group stage of the recent African Nations
Championship in Rwanda.
Amid
speculation over his future, Oliseh took to social media platform YouTube to
vent his frustration by attacking his critics who wanted him sacked, but he
would later apologise. Nigerian sports minister Solomon Dalung waded into the
crisis when he advised against sacking the coach. Under Oliseh, the Eagles
played 14 matches, losing two.