Pressure mounts on Nigeria’s Keshi

Former Nigeria international, Garba Lawal has called on Amaju Pinnick’s Nigeria Foot­ball Federation (NNF) to show Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi the exit door irrespec­tive of the outcome of the remaining AFCON 2015 qualifiers.

Lawal, who slammed Keshi, after the humiliation in Sudan, also said the Eagles handler has nothing more to offer .

The Roda JC of Holland midfielder, who had in the past expressed reservations on Keshi’s selection poli­cies, stated that the 53-year-old gaffer should not be allowed to continue, insisting that Keshi had lost grip of the situation .

“At this moment, I would say Keshi has lost it. We don’t even know if we will qualify for the AFCON or not, because it is going to be very difficult right now. We lost one at home, lost one away, and drew away, so it’s a problem.

“We don’t have time for another coach to come in at the moment, but it still can be done. But Keshi has lost and I kept talking about the players he was ignoring. I talked about IK Uche and I wonder if Taiye Taiwo won’t play better than Elderson Echiejile is at the mo­ment, but yet these guys are continually snubbed,” he said in a bit of an angry tone.

“So we should get another coach because we can­not continue contemplating which is not good for a country like Nigeria. Champions of Africa struggling to qualify for the African championship is not good enough because it is obvious the coach has lost it, he has lost it,” Lawal posited.