Oliseh flew out to Belgium after Nigeria’s group stage ouster at the 4th African Nations Championship in Rwanda which drew a lot of criticism.
Oliseh, obviously not happy, spewed out his frustrations with videos on his official Youtube channel describing his call to be sacked and constant criticism as ‘insane’. That and a whole lot drew the ire of fans, journalists and former team-mates alike.
The former Ajax of Amsterdam midfielder has since apologised to Nigerians and his employers-The Nigeria Football Federation.
supersport.com takes a look at the series of events that started with Nigeria’s ouster from the CHAN 2016 tournament and Oliseh’s outbursts.
January 26, 2016
Nigeria are knocked out of the 2016 CHAN event after losing 1-0 to Guinea in the final group game. Leading Group C into the final match day, the Super Eagles capitulated to Guinea who took the chance they had.
Ibrahima Sankhon’s goal just before half-time was all Guinea needed to progress while the Super Eagles were shown the exit door
Oliseh then departed for Belgium after the Super Eagles were knocked out of the CHAN tournament while the rest of the squad came back to Nigeria.
That action took a few by surprise.
February 6
In a two video tirade [above] , Sunday Oliseh let’s rip at his critics. In a two part video which was published on his official youtube account, the former Juventus players calls out his former international team-mates whom he accused of overtly criticising him and calling for his sack.
Oliseh also called ‘Insane’ the call by his sack which he attributed to player managers and agents who are trying to curry favours from him to invite certain players to the Super Eagles.
Nigerian journalists were not spared in his rants as he accused a section of the media who he claims have asked him to pay them for favourable reports and positive laundering of his image.
He went as far as hinting at witchcraft being used against him with the intention of harming him or causing failure to his team
That didn’t sit well with a lot of Nigerians. Just to put this in perspective, in a land of a millions of Eagles fans Part I got 25 likes and Part II 30. That is a failing grade anywhere.
February 8
Oliseh purportedly apologised to the Nigeria Football Federation for the rants. Green and Amaju the NFF big-wigs have both confirmed this but they have also halted paying the salary of Ex-international and former team-mate of Oliseh, Tijani Babangida was appointed by the Eagles coach as Special Assistant
February 9
One group that want more than an apology is SWAN, the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria whose chairman Andrew Abah [below] released a communiqué giving Sunday Oliseh a 7-day ultimatum to publish the names of the journalists who he claims asked him to be paid for favours or face repercussions.
February 10
Sunday Oliseh took to his official Twitter account (@SundayOOliseh) to apologise to all Nigerians for his comments
Again based on the response Nigerians were still irked at the fact that rather than preparing for Egypt, and the crucial doubleheader next month, they are being subjected to nothing short of a soap opera
Meanwhile Egypt coach Héctor Cúper confided in supersport.com two weeks ago that he already has his squad set for the games with Nigeria
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