As stated by Idah Peterside, Daniel Amokachi stabbed Stephen Keshi in the back, when he offered himself for the job during the Big Boss trouble times. The ex- Super Eagles wobbly goalkeeper revealed this on a South African television sports porgramme Soccer Africa on Saturday. Peterside revealed further that Keshi felt that Amokachi betrayed the trust he had in him with the decision to take over the Eagles' chief coach job at a time when he was still negotiating a new deal with eggheads of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). "I can tell you seriously from what I gathered that Keshi felt betrayed by Amokachi's quest for his job and doesn't think he can trust Da Bull to work with him again. I doubt it if Amokachi would return to the job. "If you ask me, I feel that Amokachi is eminently qualified to get the job in Keshis absence. If there was a lacuna, and Amokachi felt he could do the job, there was nothing worng with that. However, as it is now, it would be difficult for Amokachi to return to the job. There would be plenty of suspicion between both of them. "Let me use this opportunity to plead with the NFF to give Keshi all the support that he needs to get the Eagles back to winning ways. I can tell you for free that I was contacted during one of the meetings to search for a new coach to replace Keshi, when the Eagles had just lifted the Africa Cup of Nations here in South Africa in 2013. "Some top Nigerian officials wanted Keshi to fail. They stopped supporting him after the Eagles lifted the Africa Cup of Nations. They wanted to prove a point that they contributed to the Eagles' feat in South Africa, hence the only way to substantiate that claim, was to leave him to do the job alone. See what it cost us. "Anyway, I hope that the NFF supports Keshi this time around. This idea of NFF always giving foreign coaches what they want should stop. When a Nigerian coach is recruited, he is made to slave for everything. However, with a foreign coach, he gets all that he needs and even more. I must, however, commend the NFF for encouraging our previous internationals to handle the Super Eagles. I want other African countries to emulate what Nigeria is doing. It appears to be what the Dutch, France, Germany, etc are doing," Peterside stated.
