Insinuations in some quarters that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), is making underground moves to replace Super Eagles Head Coach, Sunday Oliseh, may not be true afterall.

One local media (not The Guardian) had reported yesterday that the soccer body had solidified moves to replace Oliseh before Nigeria’s 2017 AFCON qualifiers against Egypt next month.

The report stated that coaches Samson Siasia and Emmanuel Amunike had been put on standby and that the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, had changed his mind because he wants to hand the team to a more experienced coach.

According to the report, the NFF boss had begun negotiation with former coach of the team and current Technical Director, Shuaibu Amodu, to take over on interim basis.

However, the NFF boss, Pinnick, has described such report as untrue. Speaking with The Guardian yesterday, Pinnick said: “That is not true. I don’t know where such report is coming from.”

The report suggests that the relationship between the NFF and Oliseh appears to have broken down and with the double-header qualifiers against Egypt few weeks away, and Oliseh’s body language is suggesting he was not in the right frame of mind to tinker the Eagles.

The arrangement to bring in Amodu, according to the report would be for the two matches after which decision would be taken on who handles the team on a permanently basis should Oliseh finally turn his back against the country.

Secretary General of the NFF, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi refused to speak on the issue yesterday, as he referred The Guardian to the Technical Committee chairman of the body, Barrister Christopher Green. But Green refused to answer several telephone calls put across to him by The Guardian.